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The India's commerce and industry ministry has started the exercise to revise base year to 2017-18 for computation of wholesale inflation with a view to present more realistic picture of the price situation

In May last year, the government revised the base year for WPI-based inflation to 2011-12 to give a better indication of changes in prices of commodities.

The new index, with 2017-18, is expected to have new items, which would provide a more realistic picture of price rise and its impact on people.

Most of the additions could be in the manufactured products category. Currently, the index has a total of 697 items, including primary articles, fuel and power and manufactured products.

Thyroxin or Thyroxine is the thyroid hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism in the human body.

If a micrograph is false-colored, it means that the computer has created the colour for the object since we know that the electron microscopes sees only black and white colours.

Gene is a hereditary unit consisting of a sequence of DNA that occupies a specific location on a chromosome and determines a particular characteristic in an organism.

In short it is a piece or segment of chromosome.

Genes undergo mutation when their DNA sequence changes. 

Coagulation is a chemical process that involves neutralization of charge. Coagulation during water treatment is designed to remove particles suspended in water.

No. Boiling water is not a chemical change. Because in this process it doesn't loss its properties. It just changes its state i.e, from liquid state to gaseous.

Hence, Boiling water is a Physiacl change and not a chemical change.