LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION - ZOOLOGY
KB 08
THIRD SEMESTER – November 2008
ZO 3875 - BIOMATHEMATICS
Date : 10-11-08
Time : 9:00 - 12:00
Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
Section A
Answer ALL questions:
(10 x 2 = 20)
1. Write a note on World Wide Web (WWW)
2. What are Nodes and Sites?
3. What is called Relational Database Management System (RDMS)?
4. Comment on ‘Data Mining’
5. Expand NCBI, EMBL, ExPASy and HTML
1 2 1


6. If A =  5 2 3  , find
1 1 2


.
7. Write the expansion of
.
8. Define a complete graph.
9. If
10. Integrate
, find
with respect to x.
Section B
Answer any FOUR questions:
(4 x 10 = 40)
11. Explain the types of Databases
12. Write notes on Sequence Alignment Methods
13. Explain ‘Flow charting’
14. If
, then show that
.
15. Define adjacency matrix and find the same for the following graph
1
v6
v1
v2
x1
x4 x 7
x5
x6
v4
v3
x2
x3
v5
16. Find the maxima and minima of
Section C
Answer any TWO questions:
(2 x 20 = 40)
17. Write notes on the following
a. Data Processing
b. Advantages and disadvantages of C
c. ‘Tree view’ and ‘Molscript’
d. FASTA and BLAST
18. Explain the characteristics of JAVA
 3 4 7


19. (a) . If A =  2 5 6  , find the co-factor of the matrix.
 7 3 9 


(b)Solve the system of equations using matrices
(8+12)
20. (a) Find the coefficient of
in the expansion of
.
(b) Show that in any group of two or more people there are always two with exactly the same
number of friends inside the group..
(c) Evaluate (i)
(ii)
.
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2
(5+5+10)