1076: Genetically modified "golden rice" has been engineered to meet human nutritional requirements. Which one of the following statements best qualifies golden rice ?

(a) Its modified genes cause the fortification of its grains with vitamin D grains have been fortified with genes to provide three times higher grain yield per

(b) Its modified genes cause the synthesis of all the nine essential amino acids

(c) The grains have been fortified with genes to provide three times higher grain yield per acre than other high yielding varieties

(d) Its grains contain pro-vitamin A which upon ingestion is converted to vitamin A in the human body
1077: The purest form of water is obtained from:

(a) A deep tube well

(b) A running stream

(c) Hot water spring

(d) Heavy rains
1078: The Ryotwari Settlement was introduced by the British in the

(a) Bengal Presidency

(b) Madras Presidency

(c) Bombay Presidency

(d) Madras and Bombay Presidencies
1079: Which one of the following subjects is under the Union List in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of Indian ?

(a) Regulation of labour and safety in mines and oilfields.

(b) Agriculture

(c) Fisheries

(d) Public health
1080: India has the largest population of the Asian X. Today, there are just about 20,000 to 25,000 X in their natural habitat spreading across the evergreen forests, dry thorn forests, swamps and grasslands. Their prime habitats are, however, the moist deciduous forests. The X population in India ranges from North-West India where they are found in the forest divisions of Dehradun, Bijnor and Nainital districts of UP to the Western Ghats in the states of Karnataka and Kerala and in Tamil Nadu.
In Central India, their population is distributed in southern Bihar and Orissa. In the East, they are seen in North-Bengal, Assam and a few other states.

The animal X referred to in this quotation is

(a) Lion

(b) Elephant

(c) Tiger

(d) One-horned rhinoceros