General Knowledge Questions

Dinabandu Mohapatra for - Bank of India

Usha Ananthasubramanian  for - Allahabad Bank

R A Sankara Narayan for - Vijaya Bank

The red blood corpuscles or Erythrocytes usually carry antigens and there are two types of antigens. The A group persons have antigen A in their red corpuscles and the B group have antigen A in their red corpuscles.The AB group persons have both antigen A and antigen B in their erythrocytes.The 'O'group persons have no antigens in their red corpuscles.

Achal Kumar Jyoti (64), a retired 1975 IAS Officer batch of Gujarat Cadre, is the newly appointed Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), who took over as the head of the Election Commission in New Delhi on today. He succeeded Dr Nasim Zaidi. Jyoti will continue as the Chief Election Commissioner till January 17, 2018. Prior to this appointment, he was Election Commissioner of India. A CEC or an EC can have a tenure of six years or hold office till the age of 65 years, whichever is earlier.

IUPAC stands for International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

A chemical nomenclature is a set of rules to generate systematic names for chemical compounds. The nomenclature used most frequently worldwide is the one created and developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

Agronomy deals with the methods which provide favourable environment to crop for higher productivity.