Questions

A mineral is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid, with a definite chemical composition. They cannot be in liquid or gas state. They exists only in solid state.

A nitrogenous base, or nitrogen-containing base, is an organic molecule with a nitrogen atom that has the chemical properties of a base. The main biological function of a nitrogenous base is to bond nucleic acids together. A nitrogenous base owes its basic properties to the lone pair of electrons of a nitrogen atom.

In DNA, four bases have been found. They are

1. Adenine (A),

2. Guanine (G),

3. Cytosine (C) and

4. Thymine (T).

The first three of these bases are found in RNA also but the fourth which is Uracil (U) is absent in it.

RNA contains cytosine and uracil as pyrimidine bases while DNA has cytosine and thymine.

No Financial Emergency has been imposed on the country so far. Article 360 deals with Financial Emergency. (This article, however,shall not apply to the state of Jammu and Kashmir)

Saina Nehwal