General Knowledge Questions

The area in which two types of air masses meet is called Front. There are two types of fronts. They are 

1) Cold front

2) Warm front

When a cold air mass pushes a warm air mass, it is called as Cold front. Similarly, when a warm air mass pushes the cold air mass, it is called as warm front.

Koala is a animal that exclusively eat only eucalyptus leaves and nothing else.

Kargam is the folk dance of Tamil Nadu state.

Synapsis is the pairing of two homologous chromosomes that occurs during meiosis. It allows matching-up of homologous pairs prior to their segregation, and possible chromosomal crossover between them.

Synapsis takes place during prophase I of meiosis.

It is also called as Syndesis.

Dry ice or Cardice is the solid form of Carbon dioxide.

1. It has an advantage of lower temperature than the water ice and doesn't leave any residue.

2. The reason why it is called as Dry ice is because unlike the normal ice, it won't melt into liquid form. It directly evaporates into the air as gas. That is Solid to gas form passing through liquid state is a phenomenon called as Sublimation.

3. The primary use of dry ice is as cooling agent.

Cholesterol belongs to lipids class of molecules. Lipids are sometimes called as fats which act as storing energy and structural components of cell membranes.

Asbestos can cause

•  Lungs

• Gastrointestinal tract  types of Cancer.

Benzene can cause

• Leukemia

• Hodgkin's lymphoma types of Cancer.

Cadmium can cause

• Prostate type of Cancer.