Question

Which of the following is not the objective to perform sequence comparison?

(a) To observe patterns of conservation

(b) To find the common motifs present in both sequences

(c) To study the physical properties of molecules

(d) To study evolutionary relationships

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Asked question is from Needleman in division Multiple Sequence Alignment of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Right answer is (c) To study the physical properties of molecules

To explain: To assess whether it is likely that two sequences evolved from the same sequence comparison is required. Also, to find out which sequences from the database are similar to the sequence at hand, sequence comparison is carried out.