Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is the Helium nucleus.

• Helium nucleus was the source of alpha particles in the Rutherford scattering experiment.
• Ernest Rutherford, a British scientist conducted an experiment and proposed the atomic structure of elements.

Key Points

• Rutherford conducted an experiment by bombarding a thin sheet of gold with α-particles.
• He then analysed the trajectory of these particles after their interaction with the gold foil.
• Since very few α-particles were deflected back, and only a few α-particles had nearly 180^o angle of deflection.
• Hence he concluded that the volume occupied by the positively charged particles in an atom is very small as compared to the total volume of an atom.

The correct option is Most of the bees in the hive are worker bees.

• Every honey bee colony comprises a single queen, a few hundred drones and several thousand worker castes of honey bees.
• A queen bee is the only female bee in the hive that gets to reproduce.
• Worker bees are all female and are all offspring of the queen. 
• Queen is a fertile, functional female, the worker is a sterile female and the drone is a male insect.
• Queen and worker develop from the fertilized egg while drone develops from an unfertilized egg.
• Further differentiation of queen and worker depends on the quality and quantity of food that is fed to the queen or worker larvae.

Explanation:

​Every beehive has one male bee and many female bees → Inorrect.

Most of the bees in the hive are worker bees → Correct

The study of honey bee is sericulture → Inorrect.

Beehives are octagonal in shapes→ Incorrect. (Hexagonal)

​Additional Information

The queen:

• ​There is only one queen in a colony and considerably larger than the members of other castes.
• Swarming is the natural method that honeybee colonies use for multiplying their colonies.
• The old queen is killed as soon as the new queen is fertilized.
• The phenomenon of raising a queen in the off-season is called supersedure.
• The normal lifespan of a queen is 3 years.

​The drone:

• ​The drones are male bees with no sting.
• They are much larger and stouter than either the queen or the workers.
• Their only function is to impregnate the young queen a task which they are unable to perform until they are about 10 days of age.
• They also help in the maintenance of hive temperature. 
• The drones are produced by unfertilized eggs of the queen, or by those workers which take up the reproductive function due to the absence of a queen in a colony.
• The normal lifespan of a drone is 57 days. 

​The worker:

• ​Smallest inhabitants of the beehive.
• They are imperfect females incapable of laying eggs.
• Worker bees primary duties are cleaning, feeding developing larva once hypopharyngeal glands develop, ripening of honey, secreting/moulding of wax into combs.
• The lifespan of a worker is about 4 weeks during the active season and 8 to 10 weeks during the less active season.
• On certain occasions when the colony is in need of a queen, some of the workers start laying eggs from which only drones are produced.
• These workers called laying workers.

The correct answer is Calcium Carbonate.

Key Points

• The chief component of the nacre that constitutes the pearl is aragonite (CaCO₃).
• Nacre also contains a small amount of conchiolin, a hornlike organic substance (albuminoid) that is the main constituent of the mollusc's outer shell.
• Pearl also contains Magnesium Carbonate(MgCO₃) along with Calcium Carbonate.

Additional Information

• Calcium carbonate is a common substance found in rocks as the minerals calcite and aragonite and is the main component of eggshells, snail shells, seashells, and pearls. 
• The Molar Mass of Calcium Carbonate is 100.0869 g/mol.
• Melting point: 825 °C.

The correct answer is option 1.

Concept:

The auto storage class is the default storage class for all local variables. The variables defined using the auto storage class are called local variables. Auto stands for automatic storage class. A variable is in the auto storage class by default if it is not explicitly specified. The scope of an auto variable is limited to the particular block only.

Storage Classes:

Storage Classes are used to describe the features of a variable/function. These features basically include the scope, visibility, and lifetime which help us to trace the existence of a particular variable during the runtime of a program. C language uses 4 storage classes.

Hence the correct answer is auto.

The correct answer is- ​Jammu&Kashmir.

Key Points

• Chashma Shahi or Chashma-i-Shahi is one of the Mughal gardens built in 1632 AD around a spring by Ali Mardan Khan, a governor of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan
• As per the orders of Emperor Shah Jahan, gifted to his elder son Prince Dara Shikoh.
• The garden is located in the Zabarwan Range, near Raj Bhawan (Governor‘s house) overlooking Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir.

Additional Information

• There is a total of 22 districts in Jammu and Kashmir. 
• Jammu and Kashmir are one of the newly formed 8th Union Territory of India. Jammu is the summer capital of the territory and Srinagar is the winter capital of the territory.
• It was a Region formerly administered by the Government of India as a state from 1954 to 2019.
•  It has been a disputed part between India, China, and Pakistan. After the Independence of India in 1947, the Jammu and Kashmir were divided between India which controlled the regions of (Jammu, Kashmir Valley, and Ladakh) and Pakistan which controlled (Gilgit–Baltistan and Azad Kashmir).
• Jammu and Kashmir was the only state in India with a mostly resident of Muslim Majority.
• It was the only state in India that had special autonomy under Article 370 of the (Constitution of India), according to which no law enacted by the Parliament of India. But on 31st October 2019, Article 370 was scrapped by the Government of India, and Jammu and Kashmir become the Union territory of India.