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Typewriter was invented by

A) Shockley B) Sholes
C) Howe D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Sholes

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The Yarlung Zangbo river in India is known as

A) Godavari B) Brahmaputra
C) Ganga D) Indus
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Brahmaputra

Explanation:

The Yarlung Zangbo river in India is known as Brahmaputra. The river Brahmaputra in China is called Yarlung Tsangpo or Yarlung Zangbo river. In Assam and Arunachal Pradesh it is called Lohit or luit meaning blood.

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The Brahmaputra is one of the major rivers of Asia, a trans-boundary river which flows through China, India and Bangladesh.

 

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Which one of the following laws explain the formation of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide from carbon and oxygen

A) Laws of conservation of mass B) Laws of multiple proportion
C) Laws of reciprocal proportions D) Law of definite proportions
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Laws of multiple proportion

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Who was the first Mughal Emperor to acquire Koh-i-nur diamond?

A) Humayun B) Akbar
C) Jahangir D) Shah Jehan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Humayun

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The two forms of democracy are

A) Parliamentary and King B) Monarchical and Republican
C) Direct and Indirect D) Parliamentary and Presidential
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Parliamentary and Presidential

Explanation:

There are two major forms of democratic government.

I. Parliamentary
II. Presidential

The citizens elect the leaders in democratic government.

The main difference is legislative and executive branches.

Executive - head of government
Legislative - how laws are made

 

I. Parliamentary democratic government : (example - United Kingdom )

1. Parliament = Legislature (Laws)
2. Parliament controls the power
3. Head of government is a prime minister chosen by the legislature
4. Prime minister and cabinet are members of the legislature
5. Prime minister answers to the legislature (fusion of powers)
6. The government will stay in office for a specified period unless the prime minister loses support of the majority on an important vote.
7. If this occurs- the P.M. must resign and elections are held immediately.

 

II. Presidential democratic government : (example - United States of America)

1. The executive and legislative branches are separate bodies elected independently by the citizens.
2. Separation of Powers
3. There are checks and balances where each branch can overrule the other.
4. The president answers to the voters, not the legislature.
5. The people elect the president, and elections are held at set intervals.

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Who has been selected for the prestigious 2016 Jnanpith Award ?

A) Ravuri Bharadwaja B) Shankha Ghosh
C) Kedarnath Singh D) Chandrashekara Kambara
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Shankha Ghosh

Explanation:

Shankha Ghosh, the outstanding Bengali writer, commentator and academician, has been chosen for the prestigious 52nd version of the Jnanpith Award (2016) by the Government of India (GoI) for his lovely phrase and tries different things with different beautiful structures check his significance as an imaginative ability.The Jnanpith Award is presented every year to a literary figure for their outstanding contribution in literature. The honor conveys a reference, prize cash of Rs. 12 lakh and a bronze imitation of Goddess Saraswati.He turned into the sixth Bengali creator to win India's most astounding artistic honor after Mahasweta Devi, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Ashapurna Devi, Subhash Mukhopadhyay and Bishnu Dey.

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Which statement about capillaries is correct?

A) their walls are covered with cilia B) they warm and humidify inhaled air
C) their walls are only one cell thick D) they move mucus through the lungs
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) their walls are only one cell thick

Explanation:

Capillaries Tiny blood vessels connecting arteries to veins. These blood vessels carry oxygen

and nutrients to individual cells. Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels in the body, and have

walls only one or two cells thick. (Their diameter is 5 to 10 micrometers, or 5 to 10 millionths of

a meter.)

 

Capillaries connect arterioles and venules, which are the smaller extensions of the larger arteries and veins.

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Heritable variation is required for which of the following?

A) Evolution B) Asexual reproduction
C) Mitosis D) Meiosis
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Evolution

Explanation:

Heritable variation is one of the four most important factors that affect whether natural selection can occur. These factors include

1) Heritable variation

2) Descent with modification

3) Struggle for survival, and necessarily if the others are satisfied

4) Survival of the fittest.

Heritable variation allows for possibly beneficial, negative, or even neutral mutations to get filtered during each generation by natural selection--weeding out negative mutations, passing on positive and neutral ones. Without heritable variation, species would quickly fall victim to parasites who take advantage of identical genetic material in a population and evolution would not occur.

Variation is the raw material of evolution.

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