Exams

Senior IPS officer Alok Kumar Verma, Delhi Police Commissioner was appointed as new Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation. He will have tenure of two years. He was selected by a three-member committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice J S Khehar and Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge. He will take over from interim director Rakesh Asthana, who was handed the reins of the premier investigating agency after former director Anil Sinha retired on December 2, 2016.

Milk is not a pure substance since it has so many constituents that can be separated physically.

Compounds are pure substances formed from elements unlike mixtures.

A Badminton shuttle or a tennis ball.

The nucleotides that are present in DNA molecule are 4. They are Thymine (T), Guanine (G), Adenine (A) and Cytosine (C).

Here in this Adenine pairs with Thymine (A - T) and Cytosine pairs with Guanine (C - G).