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The technique that enables a light field to be recorded and later reconstructed when the original light field is no longer present is called?

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Holography

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An apparatus containing a movable or driven mirror, used to reflect sunlight in a fixed direction is called?

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Heliostat

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What is the name of Israel’s largest solar power project, currently under construction?

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Ashalim Project

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Israel’s largest solar power project, Ashalim project, is located in?

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Negev desert

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The world’s largest solar tower, at 250 m, is being constructed in?

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The Ashalim Solar Power Project, Negev desert, Israel.

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The Ashalim Solar Power Project in Israel will generate a power of?

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310 MW

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The method used by the Ashalim Solar Power Project in Israel to generate power is?

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Solar Thermal Method

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The method where mirrors focus Sun’s rays to heat the boiler creating steam to spin the turbine and generate electricity is called?

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Solar Thermal Method

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The Ashalim Project will help Israel achieve its goal of generating ______% of its electricity from renewable sources by ______.

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10%, 2020

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Intermediaries between planets and full-fledged stars are called?

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Brown Dwarfs

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The mass of a brown dwarf is less than that of a planet. True or false?

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False

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The mass of a brown dwarf is too small for ________ to take place.

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Nuclear fusion of Hydrogen to Helium.

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A new Brown drawf has been discovered in which constellation?

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Pisces

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Name the world’s largest nuclear and particle physics lab.

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European Organization for Nuclear Research. (CERN)

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CERN is based in?

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Geneva

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CERN has ____ member states, ____ associate member states and ____ observers.

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22, 4, 7

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Name the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

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Large Hadron Collider

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Name the general purpose detector used at the LHC to study the standard model including the Higgs Boson.

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Compact Muon Solenoid(CMS)

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Name the experiment used for research in the physics of particles at an infinitely small scale.

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ALICE - A Large Ion Collider Experiment

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India was inducted as an observer in CERN in?

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2004

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India became an associate member of CERN in?

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2016

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India and CERN signed a cooperation agreement in?

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1991

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Name the institute which started India’s involvement with CERN.

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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai in 1960s.

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Name the Indian institute which built accelerator components for the CERN.

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Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology

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In the field of large scale computing, India has designed, developed and deployed software for the?

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Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Grid(WLCG)

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Which country has developed a floating LNG plant?

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China

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What is the range of power generation capacity of the floating LNG plant?

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10-800 MW

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Natural Gas is converted into a liquid by cooling it to?

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-162℃

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Name the Aurangabad based startup which developed India’s first biometric blood bank.

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Strides Software Solutions

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Innovative tiolets which reuse waste water to create biogas to generate power were developed in Kerala by?

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Eram Scientific

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Name the two missions announced by NASA to explore asteroids.

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Lucy and Psyche

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Lucy is scheduled to be launched in which year?

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2021

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Which asteroids is the NASA mission Lucy going to explore?

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Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids

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Nasa’s mission Psyche is scheduled to be launched in which year?

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2023

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Name the asteroid which the Nasa mission Psyche is going to explore.

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16 Psyche Asteroid

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Nasa mission Lucy will help gain more info about?

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The Earth’s core and the formation and evolution of planets.

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What is the composition of the asteroid 16 Psyche?

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Iron and Nickel

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The world’s highest altitude gravitational wave telescope is being constructed by?

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China

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The world’s highest altitude gravitational wave telescope is being constructed in?

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Ngari territory in Tibet.

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The objective if the Ngari Gravitational Wave Telescope is to know more about?

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The Big Bang Theory

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The Ngari Gravitational Wave Telescope is expected to be operational by?

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2021

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The process of encoding and decoding information so that it is sent srcurely over a communication network is called?

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Cryptography

43
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Quantum cryptography uses?

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Quantum physics

44
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Until the 1990s, cryptography was based on?

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algorithms

45
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In quantum cryptography, the key is generated using?

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Spin of the photon

46
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Which country is ready to offer India quantum cryptography?

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Russia

47
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What are the fields in which quantum cryptography can be employed?

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Banking and Espionage

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Waves associated with the path of the jet stream and the formation of low and high pressure systems are called?

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Rossby Waves

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Rossby Waves have been detected on?

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Sun

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The giant, spinning and persistent storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere is called?

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The Giant Red Spot

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A series of oval shaped storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere is called?

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String of pearls

52
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Name the solar system discovered by Chile and Nasa?

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Trappist 1

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The star, Trappist-1 is found in which constellation?

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Aquarius

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The area near a star considered to be ideal for the emergence of life is called?

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Goldilocks Zone

55
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Which stars make promising targets for extraterrestrial life to be found?

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Dim red dwarf stars

56
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The discovery of Trappist 1 solar system makes a record for?

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the max number of habitable zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system

57
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A planet that orbits the sun other than the sun is called?

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Exoplanet

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The Wolf 1061 Solar system is located in which constellation?

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Ophiuchus

59
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Exoplanets with a mass 1-10 times that of the Earth are called?

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Super Earth

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The Super Earth classification refers only to ____ and not to ______ or ______

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mass, surface conditions, habitability

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The Wolf 1061 C exoplanet is within the ____ zone of a star?

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Goldilocks

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The Wolf 1061 star is a?

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M class Red Dwarf

63
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Name the government project to carry out scientifically validated research on cow derivatives including its urine and their benefits.

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SVAROP

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Abbreviate SVAROP

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Scientific Validation and Research on Panchgavya

65
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What is the concoction of cow dung, cow urine, milk, curd and ghee called?

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Panchgavya

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Which departments are conducting the government project SVAROP?

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Dept. of S&T, Dept. of Biotechnology, CSIR under the Min. of S&T in collaboration with IIT Delhi.

67
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Which molecules are thought to be important building blocks of life?

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Negatively charged Carbon Chain Anions.

68
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Carbon Chain Anions have been discovered in which satelite of which planet using which mission?

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Titan satellite of Saturn using the Cassini mission

69
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Super flexible and strong artificial silk has been developed by the scientists of which university?

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University of Cambridge

70
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The super flexible and strong artificial silk fibres developed in University of Cambridge is spun from?

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A soupy material called Hydrogel

71
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What is the composition of Hydrogel?

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98% Water and 2 % Silica and Cellulose

72
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An artificial heart has been designed using which technology?

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3D printing technology

73
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Artificial heart designed using 3D printing technology uses which material?

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Silicone

74
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Name the massive supercluster of galaxies discovered by Indian scientists.

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Saraswati

75
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How far is the supercluster Saraswati away from us?

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4 billion light-years

76
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What is the width of the Saraswati supercluster?

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600 million light-years

77
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Name the first discovered supercluster of galaxies

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Shapley, 1989

78
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Name the second supercluster of galaxies discovered.

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Sloane Great Wall, 2003

79
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The third discovered supercluster of galaxies is?

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Lanaikea, 2014

80
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The Milky Way Galaxy is part of which supercluster of galaxies?

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Lanaikea

81
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The largest coherent structures seen in the world are?

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Superclusters

82
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What is the width of the Milky Way Galaxy?

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150,000 light-years

83
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Where does the Supercluster Saraswati lie in the sky?

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Stripe 82 of Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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Name the ambitious plan to make a digital 3D map of the universe.

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Sloane Digital Sky Survey.

85
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Name the Bioluminescent shark recently discovered by scientists.

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Etmopterus Lailae

86
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To which family do Bioluminescent sharks belong?

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Lanternshark

87
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Where are Bioluminescent sharks found?

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At a depth of 1000 ft in Pacific Ocean

88
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What are the unique features of the Bioluminescent sharks?

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Strange head shape and unusally large and bulgy snout

89
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Which chemical compound is also known as Flammable Ice?

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Methane Hydrate

90
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Which country has recently been successful in producing natural gas from Methane Hydrate?

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China

91
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Which sea is thought to contain promising deposits of Methane Hydrate or Flammable Ice?

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South China Sea

92
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CO2 is a more potent GHG than methane. True or False.

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False.

93
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The bioactive component of turmeric is called?

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Curcumin

94
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It has been found that nanoparticles loaded with curcumin can target and destroy which tumour cells.

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Neuroblastoma

95
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Which is the most common cancer in children younger than five years old?

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Neuroblastoma

96
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Where are functional cloud physics observatories located in India?

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Munnar(Kerala) and Mahabaleshwar (Konkan)

97
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Name the new gene-editing technology used to store a movie in the DNA?

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CRISPR or CAS-9

98
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What are the four molecules that DNA is made up of?

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Adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine

99
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Movie has been stored in the DNA of which organism?

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the common gut bacteria, coli

100
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Abbreviate CRISPR

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

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