Group 2 2013 December GE

Which of the following statements about respiration is true?

I. Respiration results in loss of dry weight in plants.

II. The intermediate chemical reactions in the breakdown of sugar in respiration and synthesis of sugar in photosynthesis are much the same.

III. The oxygen concentration is not known to affect respiration.

IV. Respiration is a constructive process.

Angiosperms differ from gymnosperms by

Consider the following statements :

(a) Dr. V.A. Smith had called India an Ethnological Museum for there is a great variety of racial types.

(b) India is well-known as a land of great varieties. Because, there is a great variety of racial types.

Of these :

What is special about the following personalities?

Pandit Ravi Shankar, M.S. Subbulakshmi and Satyajit Rey

Which is the correct sequence of various sectors in GDP of India in the descending order?

The National Food Security Act was gazetted in

Net National Income (NNI) does not include

Find the missing numbers in the place '?'

Find the missing term

A sum was put at simple interest at a certain rate for 2 years. Had it been put at 3% higher rate, it would have fetched Rs. 300 more. Find the sum.

A and B can do a piece of work in 10 days; B and C in 15 days; C and A in 18 days. In how many days can B alone do it?

In a certain code, LABOUR is written as KBAPTS. How is CANDID written in that code?

Match the following :

List I (Currencies )	List II(Countries )
a) Dinar	1.) Korea
b) Von	2.) Iraq
c) Peso	3.) Russia
d) Rouble	4.) Phillippines

The Conjugate base of [Fe(H₂O)₆]⁺³ is

In the extraction of iron from its Haematite ore, the flux added and gangue formed respectively are

Which among the following genetic codons codes as the stop codon during translation?

I. UGC

II. UAA

III. UAG

IV. UGA

I. UGC

II. UAA

III. UAG

IV. UGA

Mid Atlantic Ridge

Observe the given figure of Mid Atlantic Ridge.Match List I with List II and select the correct code given below the lists.

List I	List II-Name of the Ridges
a) a	1.) Challenger Ridge
b) b	2.) Rio-Grande Ridge
c) c	3.) Walvis Ridge
d) d	4.) Dolphin Rise

Which is wrongly matched?

List I	List II
a) Universal Declaration of Human Rights	1.) 1948
b) European Social Charter	2.) 1961
c) American Declaration of Rights and Duties of Man	3.) 1958
d) International Covenant Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)	4.) 1966

Consider the following statements :

Assertion (A) : The JVP committee was set up to re-examine the issue of linguistic re-organisation of Indian states.

Reason (R) : The committee members were Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabai Patel and Pattabhi Sitaramayya.

Show your answer according to the coding scheme below :

N.M.R. Subbaraman, the freedom fighter, was called as

If the radius of a circle is increased by 25% then its area is increased by

In a mixture of 28 litres, the ratio of milk and water is 5 : 2. If 2 litres of water is added to the mixture, find the ratio of milk and water in the new mixture.

A, B and C together can finish a piece of work in 4 days. A alone can do in 12 days and B alone in 18 days. How many days will be taken by C to do it alone?

The Green House Rural Housing Scheme of Tamil Nadu is powered by

What is 'CHOGM'?

Consider the following statements and select your answer :

Assertion (A) : Electron microscopes can give better resolution than optical microscopes.

Reason (R) : A high energy particle has a short de Broglie wavelength and so can probe the small scale interior structure of other particles.

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists

List I (River)	List II (River Empties into)
a) Hwang-Ho	1.) Beaufort sea
b) Niger	2.) Yellow sea
c) Volga	3.) Gulf of Guinea
d) Mackenzie	4.)Caspian sea

Match the following Temple with place and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

List I	List II
a) Monolithic Rathas	1.)Tiruttani
b) Kailasanatha Temple	2.) Gudimallam
c) Virattaneswara Temple	3.) Kanchipuram
d) Parasuramesvarar Temple	4.) Mamallapuram

Assertion (A) : Delhi has not been accorded the status of a full state.

Reason (R) : Being capital of India, it occupies a special state.

According to UNDP's "Human Development Report" (HDR) - 2000 released on june 29^th 2000, India has been ranked as ________ amoung 174 countries in the Human Development Index.

The aim of Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) is to make the country

Find the value of

√(58+√(31+√(21+√(11+√(25))))).

5% income of X is equal to 15% income of Y and 10% income of Y is equal to 20% income of Z. If income of Z is Rs. 3,000 then total income of X, Y and Z in Rupees is

Authors of "Phantoms in the Brain" is

The chronological order of the following Chief Justice of India is

1. Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal

2. Sarosh Homi kapadia

3. K.G. Balakrishnan

4. Altamas kabir

Which one of the following places is not affected by the floods of Uttar khand in 2013?

Who is the chairman of the 14^th Finance Commission?

Which one of the following is not the key recommendation put forward by the Justice Verma Committee, 3^rd February, 2013?

Match the type of respiration in insects in Column I with Column II and choose the correct answer : Column I Column II

Column I	Column II
a) Holopneustic	1.) Spiracles are replaced by gills
b) Metapneustic	2.) Only the prothoracic spiracles are open
c) Propneustic	3.) All the spiracles are open
d) Branchipneustic	4.) Prothoracic and posterior abdominal spiracles are open
e) Amphipneustic	5.) Only last pair of spiracles are open

The best source of vitamin D is

Which amoung the following is correctly matched?

Match the following Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below :

List I	List II
a) Atmiya Sabha	1.) M.G. Ranade
b) Prarthana Sabha	2.) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
c) Arya Samaj	3.) Dayanand Saraswathi
d) Deccan Education Society	4.) Atmaram Pandurang

Which Commission recommended 27% reservation for backward communities?

Which schedule of the Indian Constitution specifies the powers, authority and responsibility of Panchayats?

Till Which Five Year Plan, employment strategy had been growth linked?

From the following graph, find the percentage of increase in the profit from 2004 to 2005

One litre of water is added to 5 litres of a 20% solution of alcohol in water. The strength of alcohol in the new solution is

If the cost of 12 Articles is equal to the selling price of 10 Articles, the profit percent in the transaction is

The difference between the present ages of P and Q is 8 yrs and the ratio of the present ages is 2:3 respectively. What is P's present age?

Which disease is caused by deficiency of proteins in Children?

Which Indian social activist is best known for her role in Narmada Bachao Andolan?

Who is the first recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award?

The oxidation states of nitrogen in the following equations are

4[NH₃OH]⁺ → N₂O + 2NH₄⁺ + 2H⁺ + 3H₂O

(X) (Y) (Z)

4[NH₃OH]⁺ → N₂O + 2NH₄⁺ + 2H⁺ + 3H₂O

(X) (Y) (Z)

During the oxidation of acidified ferrous ammonium sulphate with dichromate solution

Consider the following statements

Assertion (A) : Copper is mainly used in Electrical Engineering Industry.

Reason (R) : Copper has the property of high conductivity.

Arrange the following plants species in descending order bassed on their altitude.

Assertion (A) : Fundamental Duties do not have any legal sanction.

Reason (R) : The Fundamental duties cannot be enforced by courts.

Consider the following statements

(a) The 73^rd Constitutional Amendment Act inserts certain provisions into Part IX of the Constitution.

(b) It empowers the State Legislature to make laws for the organisation of Panchayats at Village level as well as at the higher levels of a district. Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

The first Individual Satyagrahi was

Which among the following Congress session was presided over by Irish member Alfred-Web?

The first editor of the paper "Bande Matram" was

Divide Rs. 680 amoung A, B, C so that A gets 3 times more to B and B gets 4 times to C.

The length, breadth and height of a room are respectively 12 metres, 9 metres and 6 meters. How many cubic boxes are needed to fill the room if the side of each box is 1.5 metres?

Sugathakumari was selected for Saraswathi Samman, 2012 in March 2013. She belongs to

Choose the incorrect pair regarding the Summits held in 2013

The graph showing the velocity 'v' of a steel ball dropped in a tall jar containing glycerine varying with time 't' is

The Measurement standards laboratory of India is

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists :

List I (Rock type )	List II (Rock class)
a) Rhyolite	1.) Calcareous Sedimentary
b) Conglomerate	2.) Foliated metamorphic
c) Slate	3.) Arenaceous Sedimentary
d) Dolmite	4.) Extrusive Igneous

Match List I with List II and select your answer using the codes given below :

List I	List II
a) Dutch East India Company	1.) 1600
b) British East India company	2.) 1664
c) French East India Company	3.) 1510
d) Portuguese Captured Goa	4.) 1602

Given below are two statements, one labelled as assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R)

Assertion (A) : India's Public Sector helped in the development of a sounds industrial base.

Reason (R) : Public Sector is under State Information Appropriate Policies and providing financial and other support has helped the Public Sector.

Rate of saving is measured as a propotion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at

Find the next figure in the given sequences :

If A's height is 25% less than that of b, then how much percent is B's height more than that of A?

Five articles A, B, C, D and E are priced differently and the value of C is Rs. 100. If "A is cheaper than C but costlier than B" and "E is costlier than C but cheaper than D" then which of the article is the costliest?

Find the next figure in the given sequence :

The Paralympic games involves

The launch vehicle which placed the Mars orbiter into its Earth on November 2013 is

The 3D Printer has been introduced in the year

Arrange the sequences of mitosis in a logic way.

I. Centromeres of chromosomes attaches to spindle fibre.

II. Chromatids uncoil and cytokinesis occur.

III. Asters and spindle fibres are formed.

IV. Centromers split into two, daughters centromeres move apart.

Inhibition of gastric secretion is brought about by

Which among the following is not correctly matched?

Match List I with List II and select your answer using the codes given below :

List I	List II
a) The Hindu Religious Endowment Act	1.) 1922
b) The Madras State Aid to Industrial Act	2.) 1929
c) The Public Service Commission	3.) 1926
d) Andhra University	4.) 1921

Which Article deals with administrative Tribunals?

In which of the following Amendment raised the age of retirement of a High Court Judges from 62 to 65 years.

Consider the following statements :

(a) : 'Operation flood' was a programme for women empowerment.

(b) : Under this programme rural women involved in dairy development.

The circle graph given shows the spendings of a family on various items and its savings during a year. If the total income of the family is Rs. 75,000. Then the expenditure on Education was

A, B, C start at the same time in the same direction to run around a rectangular garden. A completes a round in 252 seconds, B in 308 seconds and C in 198 seconds starting at the same point. After what time will they meet again at the starting point?

Find the greatest number which will divide 2112 and 2792 leaving the remainder 4 in each case

Match the following :

List I	List II
a) Toba	1.) Caldera
b) Mariana	2.) Trench
c) Mawsynram	3.) World Wettest place
d) Titicaca	4.) Deepest Lake

Match the following :

List I	List II
a) Moment of linear momentum	1.) Buoyancy
b) Ability of free surface of a liquid to minimize its surface area	2.) Potential
c) Work done per unit charge	3.) Surface tension
d) Upward force experienced by a body when wholly or partially immersed in a fluid	4.) Angular momentum

Match the pressure belts with their latitudes :

List I	List II
a) Polar high	1.) 30° to 35° North and South
b) Sub polar low	2.) 90° North and South
c) Equatorial low	3.) 60° to 65° North and South
d) Tropical high	4.) 0° to 5° North and South

The National Commission for Women was set up in

Match the feature of the constitution with the country from which they have been borrowed :

Feature	Country
a) Rule of Law	1.) Ireland
b) Judicial of Review	2.) Australia
c) Idea of concurrent subjects	3.) U.S.A
d) Directive Principles of State Policy	4.) England

Which is wrongly matched?

I. Gopala Nayak - Dindigul

II. Raja of Pazhasi - Malabar

III. Krishnappa Nayak - Kannada

IV. Dhoondaji Waug - Tanjore

The Congress should get entry into the councils not to cooperate with the Government but to non-cooperate with it'. This statement was made by whom?

Rs. 800 amounts to Rs. 920 in 3 years at simple interest. If the interest rate is increased by 3%, it would amount to

A table is sold for Rs. 414 at a profit of 15%. How much did it cost?

Match the cultural centres in India with their zonal head quarters :

Zone	Head quarters
a) Southern zone	1.) Patiala
b) Northern zone	2.) Udaipur
c) Eastern zone	3.) Thanjavur
d) Western zone	4.) Kolkatta

Who was crowned Miss World 2013?

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Who is the Prime Minister of Australia in October 2013?

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