CAT Questions

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Indian Economist Rajiv Kumar is the Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog.

Madhya Pradesh has won the 'Best Tourism State' national award for the third consecutive year. President Ram Nath Kovind handed over the award, named as 'Hall of Fame Award', to Minister of State for Tourism Surendra Patwa at a ceremony held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.

Siva Samudram in Karnatka. The potential for hydroelectric power in India is one of the greatest in the world.

The first hydro-electric power station in India was established in Karnataka at "shivana samudra".

Makaibari is the world's first tea factory and was established in 1859 in Darjeeling, West Bengal. 

It is most expensive tea in India which costs around 1.12 lakhs for 1 kg of tea.

Hence, Makaibari is the costliest variety of Tea.

Amino acids are a crucial, yet basic unit of protein, and they contain an amino group and a carboxylic group. They play an extensive role in gene expression processes.

Amino acids become proteins when 50 or more are bonded together in a chain. All the millions of different proteins in living things are formed by the bonding of only 20 amino acids.

Eight of these amino acids are essential and cannot be produced by the body.

They are:

• Leucine

• Isoleucine

• Lysine

• Threonine

• Methionine

• Phenylalanine

• Valine

• Tryptophan

•  Histidine is an amino acid that is categorized as semi-essential since the human body doesn't always need it to properly function

Nonessential amino acids are produced by the human body either from essential amino acids or from normal protein breakdowns. Nonessential amino acids include:

• Asparagine

• Alanine

• Arginine

• Aspartic acid

• Cysteine

• Glutamic acid

• Glutamine

• Proline

• Glycine

• Tyrosine

• Serine.

Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology.

Hence, Sociological analysis of religion is concerned with patterns of religious activity and their effect on social life.

A galvanic cell is also known as voltaic cell provides electrical energy from the chemical energy.

World Consumer Rights Day is being observed today (15 March 2017) which is an awareness day and theme for this year is 'Building a Digital World Consumers can trust'.