CAT Questions

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Microscopes are of three types. They are :

1) Optical microscopes

2) Electron microscopes

3) Scanning tunneling microscopes

Scanning tunneling microscopes are the microscopes that are used to view metal surfaces.

Beta is the measurement of the systematic risk of the market.

The Sahara is the largest non-polar desert in the world. The Sahara is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

The desert covers large sections of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. It covers 9 million square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), amounting to 31% of Africa.

Its borders include the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Red Sea to the east.

Humming bird is the smallest bird and the only bird which can fly in backwards in the world.

Mixed economy is the most common economic system in the world.

Five basic tastes are :

salty,

sweet,

bitter,

sour, and

umami.

The taste receptors are located all over in the mouth around paillae structures.

A daisy-wheel printer works on the same principle as a ball-head typewriter. Daisy wheel printer is a type of impact printer invented in 1969.

The daisy wheel is a disk made of plastic or metal on which characters stand out in relief along the outer edge. To print a character, the printer rotates the disk until the desired letter is facing the paper.