Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is Twelve.

• Twelve members are nominated by the President in Rajya Sabha.

Key Points

• Rajya Sabha [Article 80]:
  • Rajya Sabha is a permanent body and not subject to dissolution. Its maximum strength is 250. The total membership of the present Rajya Sabha is 245 however one-third members retire every second
    year.
  • Their seats are filled up by fresh elections and a presidential nomination at the beginning of every third year.
  • There are no seats reserved for SCs and STs in Rajya Sabha.
  • Representation of People Act (1951) provided the term of office of a member of the Rajya Sabha shall be six years. 
  • In the Rajya Sabha, 12 members are nominated by the President from persons having special knowledge or practical experience of literature, science, art and social service.
  • The President is empowered to nominate not more than two Anglo Indian members to the Lok Sabha if that community is not adequately represented in that House.

The correct answer is Leeuwenhoek.

Key Points

Additional Information

• Penicillin:
  • Penicillin is one of the first and still one of the most widely used antibiotic agents, derived from the Penicillium mold.
  • In 1928 Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming first observed that colonies of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus failed to grow in those areas of a culture that had been accidentally contaminated by the green mold Penicillium notatum.
  • He isolated the mold, grew it in a fluid medium, and found that it produced a substance capable of killing many of the common bacteria that infect humans.
  • Australian pathologist Howard Florey and British biochemist Ernst Boris Chain isolated and purified penicillin in the late 1930s, and by 1941 an injectable form of the drug was available for therapeutic use.
• Microscope:
  • Microscope is an instrument that produces enlarged images of small objects, allowing the observer an exceedingly close view of minute structures at a scale convenient for examination and analysis.
  • Although optical microscopes are the subject of this article, an image may also be enlarged by many other waveforms, including acoustic, X-ray, or electron beam, and be received by direct or digital imaging or by a combination of these methods.
  • The microscope may provide a dynamic image (as with conventional optical instruments) or one that is static (as with conventional scanning electron microscopes).
• Reverse transcriptase:
  • Reverse transcriptase also called RNA-directed DNA polymerase, an enzyme encoded from the genetic material of retroviruses that catalyzes the transcription of retrovirus RNA (ribonucleic acid) into DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
  • This catalyzed transcription is the reverse process of normal cellular transcription of DNA into RNA, hence the names reverse transcriptase and retrovirus.
  • Reverse transcriptase is central to the infectious nature of retroviruses, several of which cause disease in humans, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and human T-cell lymphotropic virus I (HTLV-I), which causes leukemia.
• Bacteria:
  • Bacteria, singular bacterium, any of a group of microscopic single-celled organisms that live in enormous numbers in almost every environment on Earth, from deep-sea vents to deep below Earth’s surface to the digestive tracts of humans.
  • Bacteria lack a membrane-bound nucleus and other internal structures and are therefore ranked among the unicellular life-forms called prokaryotes.
  • Prokaryotes are the dominant living creatures on Earth, having been present for perhaps three-quarters of Earth history and having adapted to almost all available ecological habitats.
  • As a group, they display exceedingly diverse metabolic capabilities and can use almost any organic compound, and some inorganic compounds, as a food source.

Concept:

An array is a data structure that contains a group of elements. These elements are all of the same data type, such as an integer.

To access element from an array subscript(index) and array name is required

Explanation:

Array name: A

To access 3^rd element in an array A[2] or 2[A] is used.  Therefore Both A[2] and 2[A] represent the value 3

Important point:

A[0] represent the value 1^st element

The correct answer is Bit.

Key Points

• Bit 
  • ​A bit or binary digit is the smallest unit of measurement used to quantify computer data.
  • It contains a single binary value of 0 or 1.
  • A single bit can define a boolean value of True(1) or False(0).
  • Generally, data transfer rates are measured in bits.
•  Binary Number System
  • ​It contains two unique digits 0s and 1s.
  • It is also known as the Base 2 system.
  • The binary numbers 0 and 1 are called a bit.
  • The computer always calculates input in binary form.
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz developed the binary system

Additional Information

• Byte
  • ​A byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits.
  • A byte is the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in the computer.
• Nibble 
  • ​A nibble is a four-bit aggregation or half an octet.
  • it is also known as half-byte or tetrad.
• BCD
  • ​In computing and electronic systems, binary-coded decimal is a class of binary encodings of decimal numbers where each digit is represented by a fixed number of bits.
  • It is implemented in the instruction set of machines.

The correct answer is Ammeter. 

Key Points

• An ammeter is the instrument used to measures the electric current in a circuit.
• Electricity is the flow of free electrons.
• Unit of Current - Ampere.
• Father of  Electricity - Michael Faraday. 

Additional Information

Ohmmeter

• The instrument used to measure the electrical resistance.
• Electrical resistance opposes the flow of electric current in a circuit.
• Unit of Resistance - Ohm
• Ohm's law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points.
• V=IR, where (R) Resistance is the proportionality constant.

Thermometer

• An instrument used to measure the temperature.
• The first Mercury Thermometer was invented by Gabriel Fahrenheit.

​Gyroscope

• The instrument used to measure or maintaining the orientation of angular velocity.
• Gyroscope was invented by Leon Foucault.