General Knowledge Questions

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar received Bharat Ratna in the year 1990.

Private Sector lender HDFC Bank signed an agreement with the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) under which the bank will facilitate a host of services to the public procurement portal for Central and state government organizations.

Metabolism is the set of life-sustaining chemical transformations within the cells of organisms. The three main purposes of metabolism are the conversion of food/fuel to energy to run cellular processes, the conversion of food/fuel to building blocks for proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and some carbohydrates, and the elimination of nitrogenous wastes.

Younger people have faster metabolism than adults. Hence, the given statement 'Younger people generally have a slower metabolism than adults' is FALSE.

Someone who has consumed a lot of alcohol were not capable of giving true consent.

Bicycle is a compound machine in the above given options. A compound machine is a machine that is formed by two or more simple machines.

In the process of photosynthesis, plants need the sun's energy, water to make food for themselves in the form of ATP ( adenosine triphosphate ) , which is packages of energy.

Carbon :

coming into the plants ( or algae ) along with water make those ATP into a bigger molecule, which is know as glucose.

Formula: 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + Suns Energy -> glucose + oxygen

Photosynthesis has an affect on the carbon cycle because it reduces the amount of CO2 in the air and redirects it into sugars which feeds animals as well as humans.

Hence, Photosynthesis removes CO2 from the atmosphere and replaces it with O2.

Andhra Pradesh's TDP - Telugu Desam Party, today i.e on 16th March 2018 quit the NDA government at the Centre a week after two of its ministers resigned from the Union cabinet over the issue of special status for Andhra Pradesh.

New York City Subway has 468 stations (277 of which are under ground) in a network covering 370 km (230 miles)