Q. When was it first discovered that RNA molecules are capable of catalyzing chemical reactions?

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Q. The studies that led to discovery of posttranscriptional gene silencing phenomena were performed on ____________

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Q. The phenomenon of RNA interference was discovered using the organism ___________________

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Q. RNA interference is evolved as a genetic immune system.

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Q. Dicer converts double-stranded RNAs into _______________

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Q. Which family of proteins plays a key role in gene silencing pathways?

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Q. RNA interference is not observed in vertebrates.

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Q. What takes place when siRNAs are used in place of dsRNA in mammalian cells?

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Q. The first RNAi therapeutics was aimed at treating ______________________

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Q. Which of the following RNAs are highly conserved?

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Q. Micro RNAs participate in ______________

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Q. Drosha is an ___________________

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Q. Which type of RNAs suppress the movement of transposons in the germline?

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Q. PIWI proteins have been best studied in _________________

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Q. Who elaborated on the significance of codons?

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Q. The genetic code is degenerate.

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Q. How many codons do not code for amino acids?

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Q. The degeneracy of code was originally predicted by __________________

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Q. First artificially synthesized gene sequence was _________________

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Q. Which was the first artificially synthesized polypeptide?

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