General Knowledge Questions

A Proprietorship is a group that has exclusive business rights and titles. A proprietorship is a business with a single owner and not registered as a corporation, partnership or limited liability company.

A procedure or method called Checks and Balances stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful.

• In the United States, there are three branches of government: The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.

• Each has its own responsibilities and at the same time they work together to make the country run smoothly and to assure that the rights of citizens are not ignored or disallowed.

• There is a clear separation of powers between them.

• Checks and Balances limit the power within each branch.

• Each branch can stop and/or override processes within other branches in manners that are outlined in federal laws, regulations, and the constitution.

• This way, their powers are balanced because the branches of government have the responsibility to check each other.

Glycolysis is the chemical process that converts glucose C₆H₁₂O₆, into Pyruvate, CH₃COCOO− + H⁺.

• It represents the first stage in the chemical oxidation of glucose by a cell.

• The free energy released in this process is used to form the high-energy molecules ATP and NADH.

W is the symbol for chemical element Tungsten or Wolfram.

It is used in making filaments of bulbs.