General Knowledge Questions

1. The National Green Tribunal banned the use of ‘Chinese’ kite strings, made of nylon or any synthetic material on the grounds that it poses threat to life and environment.

2. The Tribunal directed all state governments to prohibit the “manufacture, sale, storage, purchase and use” of synthetic manja or nylon threads and all other synthetic strings used for flying kites with immediate effect.

3. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar ordered the authorities to ban import of any synthetic manja.

India has been unanimously elected as the President of the UN-Habitat. UN-Habitat, an organ of the United Nations’ Organisation (UNO) reports to the United Nations General Assembly. UN-Habitat  promotes socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements across the world. India has been elected as the President of UN-Habitat after a gap of 10 years. This is only the third time that India has been elected as the President of UN-Habitat after 2007 and 1988. The UN-Habitat was established in 1978.

The given statement is False. Wild animals are considered as a natural resource.

Natural resources are resources taken from nature to satisfy our needs. These natural resources are:

1) Air

2) Water

3) Soil

4) Plants

5) Animals

6) Minerals

7) Forests

8) Natural Gas

9) Coal

10) Petroleum.

Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of 55770 fully covered tribal habitations with the safe drinking water in the country followed by Odisha and Jharkhand.

Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells do share a feature of DNA.

Both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells have structures in common.

All cells have a plasma membrane, ribosomes, cytoplasm, and DNA.

Prokaryotic cells are primitive cells which have no true nucleus and membrane bound organelles, while Eukaryotic cells are cells that have true nucleus, membrane bound organelles and well defined structures and layouts.

The world's tallest twisted tower, the Infinity Tower was launched in Dubai Marina on 10 June 2013.