Question Discussion & Solution

Concept:

• Plant growth hormones or phytohormones are simple molecules with complex chemical composition, that regulates the growth and physiology of plants.
• Based on their functions on the living plant body they can be classified into two groups:

1. Plant growth promoters - Promotes activities like cell division, cell enlargement, flowering, fruiting, etc. Eg. Auxins, Gibberellins & cytokinins.
2. Plant growth inhibitors - They are involved in various growth-inhibiting activities like dormancy, and abscission. Eg. Abscisic acid.

• Gaseous PGR like ethylene can be put into both groups, however, it is largely an inhibitor of growth activities.

Explanation:

• Ethylene is a simple gaseous PGR.
• It is synthesized in large amounts by tissues undergoing senescence and ripening fruits.
• Influences of ethylene on plants include horizontal growth of seedlings, swelling of the axis, and apical hook formation in dicot seedlings.
• Ethylene promotes senescence and abscission of plant organs, especially of leaves and flowers.
• Ethylene is highly effective in fruit ripening. It enhances the respiration rate during the ripening of the fruits. This rise in the rate of respiration is called respiratory climactic.
• Ethylene breaks seed and bud dormancy, initiates germination in peanut seeds, sprouting of potato tubers.
• Ethylene promotes rapid internode/petiole elongation in deepwater rice plants.
• It helps leaves/ upper parts of the shoot to remain above water.
• Ethylene also promotes root growth and root hair formation, thus helping the plants to increase their absorption surface.

Additional Information

Concept:

• Electric current is the rate of flow electric charge or free Electrons in a definite direction through any section of wire. Its SI unit is ampere(A).
• The direction of the conventional current corresponds to the direction of positive charge which is from higher potential(positive) to lower potential(negative).

I = Q / t

I is current, Q is charge, t is time

Explanation:

Q = I t

So Charge is the product of current and time.

Unit of current is Ampere, and unit of time is an hour. 

So, Amount of charge or Quantity of electricity is Ampere-hour 

The correct answer is SRAM.

​Key Points

• SRAM memory devices are very much similar, mainly in terms of speed, to the cache memory.
• SRAM stands for Static random-access memory.
• Static random-access memory is a type of random-access memory that uses latching circuitry to store each bit.
• SRAM is volatile memory; data is lost when power is removed.
• The term static differentiates SRAM from DRAM which must be periodically refreshed.

Additional Information

• Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is a type of semiconductor memory that is typically used for the data or program code needed by a computer processor to function.
• Flash memory, also known as flash storage, is a type of nonvolatile memory that erases data in units called blocks and rewrites data at the byte level.
• EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory) is user-modifiable read-only memory (ROM) that can be erased and reprogrammed (written to) repeatedly through the application of higher than normal electrical voltage.

The correct option is, i.e. Brain.

• Hypothalamus-
  • The Hypothalamus is a part of Brain that plays a crucial role in many important functions of the Human Body.
  • The hypothalamus is located below the thalamus in the brain.
  • The hormones from the hypothalamus govern physiological functions such as temperature regulation, thirst, hunger, sleep, mood, and the release of other hormones within the body.
  • Hypothalamus regulates the pituitary gland.

The correct answer is Chambal River.

• Kota is situated on the bank of the Chambal River.

Key Points

Important cites on the riverbank in India​