General Knowledge Questions

The purpose of defibrillation is to stop the chaotic, disorganized contraction of the cardiac cells. Defibrillation is a technique used in emergency medicine to terminate ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia. It uses an electrical shock to reset the electrical state of the heart so that it may beat to a rhythm controlled by its own natural pacemaker cells.

Karst topography is a landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.

Afghan-India Friendship Dam is previously called as Salma Dam between India and Afghanistan on Hari river.

A chemical bond in which the electrons are not shared equally due to differences in the electronegativity of the atoms.

The polarity of a covalent bond is measured using its dipole moment.

 Large dipole moment = more polar

 Small dipole moment = more nonpolar.

Aldosterone is a steroid hormone that is produced in the adrenal gland. It is useful and more essential for the conservation of sodium content in the kidney, salivary glands, colon and sweat glands.

Here, Aldosterone increases sodium reabsorption by increasing the number of Na+-K+ ATPase pumps in the luminal membrane of the proximal tubule is the only option that is NOT correct about aldosterone.