GATE Questions

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A protein that acts as a hormone is INSULIN.

Insulin is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets; it is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body.  Insulin helps keeps your blood sugar level from getting too high or too low.  

The ability of two or more substances to combine to form other substances is called Reactivity.

The reciprocal of a negative number is always a negative number. So that the number and its reciprocal multiply to 1. 

All real numbers except 0 have reciprocals.

Using BODMAS law,

3 x 3 + 3 - 3 + 3 =

3 x 3 = 12

= 12 + 3 - 3 + 3

=  9 + 3

= 12

Hence, 3 x 3 + 3 - 3 + 3 = 12.

While eating a watermelon, we all go along the red and stops at green.

From the trial and error method of division,

201 is divisible by 3

205 is divisible by 5

203 is divisible by 7

Hence, after eliminating three options, remained is 211 and is divisible by only 1 and itself. 

Therefore, 211 is the smallest prime number greater than 200.

Mercury was the remedy of choice for syphilis in Protestant Europe. Until the early 20th century, the primary treatment for syphilis was mercury, in the form of calomel, ointments, steam baths, pills, and other concoctions.

Mercury was already being used in Western Europe to treat skin diseases.