Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is Amlanand Ghosh.

Key Points

• Prof Amlanand Ghosh excavated the Kalibangan site in 1952.
• The Kalibangan civilization is supposed to older than 4000 BC.
• This Rajasthan civilization was the first metropolis state in India.
• Kalibangan lies along with the left Bank of the dried-up bed of river Ghaggar.
• The site contains both pre-Harappan and Harappan remains, and therein can be seen the transition between the two cultures.
• Although the pre-Harappan culture worked copper and produced pottery, it had no writing system, and its ruins lack the orderly layout and use of baked brick that is found in the later Harappan sites.
• The Harappan remains include a cemetery and a fortified citadel. 

Additional Information

• Ratna Chandra Agrawal: 
  • Bhinmal Civilization was first founded by Ratna Chandra Agrawal in 1953-54 AD.
  • Bhinmal civilization is founded in the Jalore District of Rajasthan.
• Ratan Lal Mishra: 
  • Ganeshwar civilization was first founded in 1977 by historian Ratan Lal Mishra.
  • This Ganeshwar civilization is more than 4000 years old and the estimated time period was 2500 – 2000 BC.

Mammalogist is a person who studies about mammals. Similarly,

The correct answer is between 13 to 20 days.

Key Points

• The life span of the WBC is between 13 to 20 days. 
• The life span of the RBC is 20-120 days and it gets destroyed in the spleen area of the human body to recycle Iron content.
• The life span of the blood platelets is 3-5 days. 
• WBC's are mainly responsible for the protection of the body from diseases.

Additional Information

 Important Points

• WBCs are also called leukocytes or white corpuscles.
• The life span of WBCs is 13 to 20 days.
• Total WBCs count ranges from 4,500 to 10,000.
• WBCs are a cellular component of the blood that lacks hemoglobin, has a nucleus, is capable of mobility, and producing antibodies.
• They act as a " Soldier or Guard " of our body.
• The size of WBCs is 12 to 17 µm in Diameter and about three times RBCs.
• WBCs do not have any Fixed shape, it may be circular, rhomboid, or any other shape.

A mountain range is a group or chain of mountains that are near together and formed by orogenic forces.

Important Points

• The Aravalli Range (sometimes called Aravali) is a mountain range in Northern-Western India.
• It runs roughly 670 kilometers (430 miles) from Delhi to Gujarat, going through southern Haryana and Rajasthan.
• Guru Shikhar, at 1,722 meters, is the tallest summit (5,650 ft).
• The Aravalli Range, which dates back to the Proterozoic era, is considered the world's oldest fold mountain system.

Additional Information

• Vindhya and Satpura ranges run parallel to each other and separate peninsular India from the mainland. 
• The Himalayas protect the Indian subcontinent from the North East as a natural barrier providing geopolitical benefits to the country.
• Vindhya, Satpura, and Himalayas are all young-fold mountains.

Hence, Aravallis is the oldest folded mountain in India.

Etymology is the study of origin of words; similarly Cosmology is study of origin of Universe.