GATE Questions

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Siphon is a tube bent to form two legs of unequal length by which a liquid can be transferred from a reservoir and then down to a lower level of it.

Siphon will fail to work if, the level of the liquid in the two vessels are at the same height.

Allotropes are the different physical forms of an element. Here in the given options, diamond and graphite are the pair of allotropes of carbon.

Some more examples are Molecular oxygen and ozone are pair of allotropes, Black and red phosphorous are also pairs of allotropes.

Second generation computers were developed during 1956 - 1963.

The ratio of money she lended is

24000 : 16000 = 3 : 2

Let the rate of interest be R%

8%                   R%
     

           10

3          :           2

R = 13%.

we know that speed = distance traveled/time taken
let the total distance traveled by the car is 2x km.
then time taken by it to cover first half is x/60 hour.
and for second half is x/40 hour.
Then average speed= total distance travelled / total time taken.

i.e. 2xx60+x40

=> 2x5x120

= 48 kmph.

In the figure, there are 21 columns containing 2 cubes each and 4 columns containing 1 cube each. 

∴Total number of cubes = (21 x 2) + (4 x 1) = 42 + 4 = 46.

In flowering plants one sperm nucleus fertilizes the egg and the other sperm nucleus fuses with two other nuclei found within the ovule, thus forming triploid endosperm.

Hence, double fertilization is unique to flowering plants.