CLP 4 EN Exam

Functional genomics is:

Proteomics is the large-scale study of all proteins that are expressed at a given time by all organisms in an ecosystem.

Environmental databases hinder data sharing and research collaboration.

Which statement best describes the essence of environmental bioinformatics?

The catastrophic 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico led to the activation of natural microbial communities with oil-degrading capacity. To identify the key bacteria responsible for natural bioremediation, scientists used:

The discovery and study of macroorganisms’ eDNA is essential for biodiversity conservation purposes.

Which statement regarding the industrial application of environmental bioinformatics is correct?

Transcriptomic analyses help determine which genes are active in the cell.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) collects climate data.

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a massively parallel sequencing technology that offers high speed and scalability of the sequencing process, together with deep sequencing of target DNA regions and a high results preciseness.