CAT Questions

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The highly energetic gamma particles can penetrate most compounds that stop by other types of radiation. However, lead, steel, or concrete can reduce the high energy of these particles, making them less penetrating.

Hence, Gamma radiation can be stopped by a several inches of lead or steel, or several meters of concrete.

Inventors and their Inventions ::

• Sir Richard Arkwright - Father of industrial revolution.

• Michael Faraday - Discovered Benzene and invented Bunsen Burner.

• Thomas Alva Edison - Invented Phonograph and motion picture camera.

When an atom loses an electron it becomes a positive ion by acquiring negatively charged. When it loses electron, the atom's radius also decreased.

Associated Press (AP) is world's oldest news agency followed by Reuters and Agence France - Presse.

The two broad categories of software in a computer are

1. System software
2. Application software

System software controls how the system works and enables user to access all of the system hardware and application software

The OS, utility programs and drivers come under system software.

Application software are software used by the user to perform specific task. They are installed according to the user's requirements.

The word processor, web browser, players, spreadsheets etc... come under this application software.

The three steps within the aerobic respiration process are glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation.

Photosynthesis builds glucose, and what was built in photosynthesis is broken down during aerobic respiration.

Hence, production of ATP from the breakdown of glucose is the main result of aerobic respiration.

Yakshagana is a traditional Indian dance drama form developed in Karnataka state of India.