[Campbell Biology P.493] Which of the following correctly pairs a bioinformatics resource wi... | Practice Question

Which of the following correctly pairs a bioinformatics resource with its primary function as described in the text?

  • A: GenBank: Primarily stores experimentally determined three-dimensional protein structures.
  • B: BLAST: Compares a given DNA or protein sequence with sequences in a database to find similar regions.
  • C: Protein Data Bank (PDB): Contains 214 million fragments of genomic DNA.
  • D: NCBI: Solely focuses on developing software for predicting evolutionary relationships between species.

Explanation

BLAST Basic Local Alignment Search Tool is explicitly mentioned as a widely used software program on the NCBI website that allows users to compare a DNA sequence with every sequence in GenBank, or compare protein sequences to find similar regions.