16: Consider the following statements:
1. The Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme was launched during 1996-97 to provide loan assistance to poor farmers.
2. The Command Area Development Programme was launched in 1974-75 for the development of water-use efficiency.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Explanation:
First statement is not correct, AIBP was launched in 1996-97 to give loan assistance to the states to help them a few major irrigation projects which were in advanced stage of completion.
Second statement is correct, Command Area Development Programme was launched in 1974-75 to develop adequate delivery of the irrigation water up to the fields.
17: Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles produce one of the following as "exhaust"
(A) NH3
(B) H2O2
(C) CH4
(D) H2O
18: Where was the first conference of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs held in the Year 1957 ?
(a) Nova Scotia (Canada)
(b) Nagasaki (Japan)
(c) Minnow brook (USA)
(d) Rhode Island (USA)
19: Which one of the following cities is the seat of Parliament of South Africa?
(a) Cape Town
(b) Johannesburg
(c) Durban
(d) Pretoria
Explanation:
Legislative Capital (Seat of Parliament) - Cape town
Administrative Capital - Pretoria
Judiciary Capital - Johannesburg
20: Match List I (Scientists) with List II (Achievement) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:
List I (Scientists)
A. Arber and Smith
B. Feldman
C. Mullis
D. Temin and Baltimore
List II (Achievement)
1. Developed transgenic plants with Agrobacterium T-DNA
2. Discovered endonucleares
3. Discovered reverse transcriptase
4. Discovered polymerase chain reaction
Codes:
A B C D
(a) 2 1 4 3
(b) 1 2 4 3
(c) 2 1 3 4
(d) 1 2 3 4
Explanation:
Smith, Nathans and Arber were awarded the Nobel prize for physiology and medicine in 1978 for the discovery of endonucleases (restriction enzymes which cut DNA at specified sites).
The molecular mechanism involved in Agrobacterium infections in plant cell discovered by Feldman in 1980.
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique or Thermocycler which multiplicates the desired DNA strand at exponential rates was discovered by Mullis in 1985.
'Reverse transcriptase' an enzyme helps in replication of RNA molecules from a DNA copy is discovered by Temin and Baltimore in 1970.