General Knowledge Questions

Sound waves cannot travel through a Vacuum.

A vacuum is an area without any air, like space. So sound cannot travel through space because there is no matter for the vibrations to work in.

Mitochondria is absent in Bacteria as well as in Blue Green Algae. They are seen in eukaryotic cells for respiration purpose.

Bachendri Pal, an employee of Tata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd at Jamshedpur, became the first Indian and the fifth woman in the world to reach the summit of Mt. Everest on May 23, 1984.

Tropical cyclones are also known as 'typhoons' in china, and Willy Willies in Australia.

Gluconeogenesis is a metabolic pathway that leads to the synthesis of glucose from pyruvate and other non-carbohydrate precursors, even in non-photosynthetic organisms.

It occurs in all microorganisms, fungi, plants and animals, and the reactions are essentially the same, leading to the synthesis of one glucose molecule from two pyruvate molecules. Therefore, it is in essence glycolysis in reverse, which instead goes from glucose to pyruvate, and shares seven enzymes with it.

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