Bioinformatics includes
(A)using DNA technology to clone genes.
(...

Question

Bioinformatics includes
(A)using DNA technology to clone genes.
(B)using computer programs to align DNA sequences.
(C)using a person’s genomic sequence to inform decisions about medical treatment.
(D)amplifying DNA segments from a species’ genome.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone. Let's look at this question. Which of the following statements does not describe bioinformatics. So bioinformatics we can recall involves data processing. So all that data that comes in from um like the human genome project sequencing the genomes of all different organisms that generates tons and tons and tons of data that we need computers to kind of handle all of that. And then it involves modeling. So modeling the structures of things and also um interpretation, taking all this raw data and putting it together and managing to get some meaningful interpretations out of it. So let's look at our answers and evaluate that. Knowing that we're looking for the answer that does not describe bioinformatics. So Choice A. Says it uses computer programming and biological studies. Well that is absolutely correct. Um So Choice A. Is not our answer. Choice B says it helps compare, analyze and interpret genomic data. Yes, bioinformatics is all about um handling large amounts of data, particularly genomic data. So Choice be not our correct answer. Troisi says it aids in a simulation and modeling of D. N. A. Yes. That computer processing power very important for things like building models. So Choice C. Not a correct answer. Well we just got one left choice D. It separates D. N. A fragments based on length. Um Well this is not part of data processing um separating DNA fragments. That would be the process of gel electrophoresis and we use gel electrophoresis to sequence DNA and we use those sequences in bioinformatics but that's not part of the data processing or modeling or interpretation. So that is not part of bioinformatics, and therefore, Choice D separates DNA fragments based on length is our correct answer to this question. See you in the next video.

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