GATE Questions

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Most of the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) come primarily from burning fossil fuels (coal, hydrocarbon gas liquids, natural gas, and petroleum) for energy use and the major greenhouse gas is of course carbon dioxide (CO2) which comes from burning fossil fuels and land-use change.

But methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), which mostly come from agriculture and waste, are also significant GHGs and shouldn't be discounted.

A shell is an interactive user interface to an operating system services that allows an user to enter commands as character strings or through a graphical user interface. The shell converts them to system calls to the OS or forks off a process to execute the command. System call results and other information from the OS are presented to the user through an interactive interface. Commonly used shells are sh,csh,ks etc.

A mixture is the blending of two or more dissimilar substances.

Characteristics of a Mixture:

1. It has No formula.

2. It is an impure sustance

3. They can be mixed in any ratio.

4. The properties of the mixture are the properties of its constituents.

5. Constituents can e easily seperated by physical methods.
eg: Heating, Drying, Crystallization, Distillation etc...

6. It is either homogenous or heterogenous.

A major characteristic of mixtures is that the materials do not chemically combine. Mixtures can be divided into those that are evenly distributed (homogeneous) and those that aren't (heterogeneous).

A computer has two types of memory.

1. Non-volatile and

2. Volatile.

Volatile memory is computer memory that requires power to maintain the stored information.

* It is a temporary memeory which cannot contain information permanently.

Example :: RAM or Random Access Memory

Non-volatile memory is computer memory that can retain the stored information even when not powered.

* It is a permanent memory in which data is stored in permanently.

Examples :: Hard disc, ROM, Floppy discs, Magnetic tape,...

Reflection is what which looks back but can't see.

Oligopoly is market structure where a small number of large firms are there. Oligopolistic industries are characterized by a few dominant firms and substantial entry barriers.

All of the options given are synonyms of RUN.

Hence, Race, Amble, Lope are similar in meaning to the word Run.

In each row, the second figure is obtained from the first figure by adding two mutually perpendicular line segments at the centre and the third figure is obtained from the first figure by adding four circles outside the main figure.