GATE Questions

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The first of the four stages of coal formation is lignite coal.

There are four stages of coal formation:

1. Peat,

2. Lignite,

3. Bituminous and

4. Anthracite.

The bacteria has removed a large portion of the other constituents of the plant matter and left around 25 to 34 percent.

The Supreme Court of India was established in the year 1950.

The number of ways in which the letters of the word RAILINGS can be arranged such that R & S always come together is

Count R & S as only 1 space or letter so that RS or SR can be arranged => 7! x 2!

But in the word RAILINGS, I repeated for 2 times => 7! x 2!/2! = 7! ways = 5040 ways.

An organelle called Eyespot allows some protists to detect light. It allows the cells to sense light direction and intensity and respond to it by swimming either towards the light (positive phototaxis) or away from the light (negative phototaxis).

Eyespot is a photoreceptive organelle found in the flagellate or (motile) cells of green algae and other unicellular photosynthetic organisms such as euglenids.

Eyespot-mediated light perception helps the cells in finding an environment with optimal light conditions for photosynthesis. Eyespots are the simplest and most common "eyes" found in nature, composed of photoreceptors and areas of bright orange-red pigment granules.

The letter 'X' resembles the same as the tool AXE in sounding.

Hence, the alphabet X is a tool.

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower i.e, water.

Wherever on earth we hold a compass, the needle points towards the magnetic North Pole. A compass is a great tool for navigation.

Compass is widely used in aircrafts, ships, military services,...

A clipboard is a temporary storage area for items that the user wants to cut or copy from one place to another.

For example, in a word processor application, the user might want to cut text from one part of a document and paste it in another part of the document or somewhere else, it is temporarily stored in clipboard.