Questions

A sarcomere is the basic unit of striated muscle tissue. It is the repeating unit between two Z lines.

Skeletal muscles are composed of tubular muscle cells (myocytes called muscle fibers or myofibers) which are formed in a process known as myogenesis. Muscle fibers contain numerous tubular myofibrils. Myofibrils are composed of repeating sections of sarcomeres, which appear under the microscope as alternating dark and light bands. Sarcomeres are composed of long, fibrous proteins as filaments that slide past each other when a muscle contracts or relaxes.

A muscle fiber from a biceps muscle may contain 100,000 sarcomeres.

Compressions and Rarefactions are characteristic of Longitudinal waves.

The direction of vibration of the particles is in the same plane as in which the wave is propagating. The particles vibrate back and forth, about their mean positions.

M. Mahender Reddy, Commissioner of Hyderabad Police, has been appointed as the new Director General of Police (DGP) of Telangana State. He took charge on 12 November 2017.
Reddy succeeded the first DGP of Telangana State Anurag Sharma, who retired from the service on 11 November 2017. Meanwhile, Hyderabad Police Additional Commissioner V.V. Srinivasa Rao has been made in-charge of Hyderabad Commissioner of Police. Anurag Sharma has now appointed as the advisor to Home Department by the Telangana State Government.

Benjamin Franklin has long been credited with the invention of bifocal lenses and he was the first to wear bifocal lenses. He did not produce them himself but instead had some optician in London or France make them for him to overcome Presbyopia, a condition that Franklin suffered. He was tired switching between lenses for far and near sightedness. And that resulted in inventing Bifocal Lenses.

A red flag with a diagonal white stripe indicates scuba diving.

And the alpha flag indicates that there is a diver inside.

SCUBA means Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.