A good answer might be:

No. You can build unending loops (infinite loops) with it. But additional instructions are needed for while loops and for if-then-else structures.

Conditional Branches

A conditional branch instruction branches to a new address only if a certain condition is true. Usually the condition is about the values in registers. Here is the beq (branch on equal) instruction:

beq  u,v,addr   # if register $u == register $v
                #     PC  <-- addr (after a delay of one machine cycle.)
                # else
                #     no effect.

The bit patterns in two registers are compared. If the bit patterns are the same, the PC is changed to the branch address. There is a branch delay following the instruction (just as for a jump instruction).

QUESTION 10:

Will a 32-bit address fit inside the 32-bit beq instruction?