Science CLAT Flashcards
Cetology is the study of
aquatic mammals (especially whales)
Morphology is the study of
external structure of living organisms
Phenology is the study of
Climate
Osteology is the study of
bones
Pathology is the study of
mechanisms and manifestations of diseases
Zymology is the study of
fermentation process
Angstrom is used to measure
wavelength of light
Candela is used to measure
luminous intensity
Gauss is used to measure
magnetic induction/ flux density
Aspirin was discovered by
Felix Hoffman
Cholera was discovered by
Robert Koch
Malaria germs (malarial parasites) were discovered by
Charles A Laveran
Bicycle was invented by
K Macmillan
Diesel engine was invented by
Rudolf Diesel
Jet engine was invented by
Sir Frank Whittle
Sewing machine was invented by
B Thimmonnier
Telescope was invented by
Hans Lippershey
What is asthma caused by?
allergens
Which part of the body does diabetes affect?
pancreas and blood
What is diphtheria caused by and what part of the body does it affect?
bacteria; throat
What is glaucoma caused by and what part of the body does it affect?
high pressure in the eyes; eyes
What does hepatitis cause?
Jaundice
What is rheumatism caused by and what part of the body does it affect?
streptococcus bacteria in children; joints
What is tonsillitis caused by?
Bacterial and viral infection
What is tuberculosis caused by?
bacteria
Which enzymes does the intestine produce?
lipase, trypsin, carbohydrases
Where is the breed of sheep Rampur Bushair found?
UP and Himachal Pradesh
Amla contains ________ acid.
ascorbic
Spinach contains ______ acid.
oxalic
Respiration is an __________ process
exothermic process (in which heat is released along with other products)
_________ uses inactivated virus i.e. it is made of killed coronaviruses, making it safe to be injected
Covaxin (got emergency approval without phase 3 data)
Which element depletes the ozone layer?
CFCs break down to release chlorine which depletes the protective ozone layer
Is silicon a metal, non metal, or metalloid?
metalloid
Is phosphorous a metal, non metal, or metalloid?
non metal
Give examples of organisms which exhibit external fertilisation?
frogs, starfish and sea urchin
On increasing temperature of solids, _______ energy of the particles increases
kinetic
the smallest bone in the human body is _________
‘stapes’
Study of lungs is _________
Pulmonology
study of the liver is _________
Hepatology
primary greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are:
water vapor, CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone
Plasma constitutes nearly ___ per cent of the blood.
55 percent
The sun’s magnetic fields flip approximately every ___
11 years, defining the solar cycle
The outermost atmospheric layer of the sun
The corona
Meaning of bathymetry
measurement of depth of water in oceans, seas
What is Chloroform?
Methane Trichloride
Tooth enamel is corroded when the PH in the mouth is
below 5.5
Nettle leaves have stinging hair which have:
methanoic acid
_________ is known as the Washing Soda
Sodium carbonate
_________ is known as the Baking Soda
Sodium Bicarbonate
The substance which doctors use as plaster:
gypsum
Silver articles become black because of:
sulphur
Copper when exposed to air, gains a green coat, this is
copper carbonate
Leukemia is a type of blood cancer in which:
number of WBC increases enormously
The site of protein synthesis in the cell:
Ribosome (in rough endoplasmic reticulum)
_________ is known as the suicidal bag of the cell
Lysosome
Which cell division occurs only in sex cells?
Meiosis
Virus was discovered by:
Ivanovsky
Nucleus was discovered by (gold foil experiment):
Ernest Rutherford
Small pox is caused by:
Variola virus
Which bacteria is the causative agent of tetanus?
Clostridium
What is the causative agent of typhoid?
Salmonella
Shell of an egg is made of:
Calcium carbonate
Beri -Beri disease is caused due to the deficiency of:
Vitamin B1
RBCs (Red Blood Corpuscles) are produced in:
Bone marrow
Polio vaccine was invented by:
Jonas Salk
The only organ that can regrow in the human body:
Liver
Star system closest to our sun:
Alpha Centauri (of the 3 stars, Proxima is the closest)
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) uses which particles?
photons, the particles which transmit light
A mutant virus _________ the severity of the disease
increases
India ranks ______ in carbon emissions
third
US targets to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by
50-52 percent below 2005 levels in 2030.
Boris announced at the Leaders Summit on Climate for Britain to cut carbon emissions by _________
78% by 2035 over 1990 levels
GoI has sanctioned the installation of ___ Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) oxygen plants
162
Liquid medical oxygen (LMO) is manufactured in large plants using _________ techniques
cryogenic distillation
Rakesh Sharma was the 1st Indian in space, who flew aboard _________
USSR’s Soyuz T-11 in 1984
Aditya L1 will be launched using the _________ with 7 payloads (instruments) on board.
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) XL
The 1st time a pregnant woman can feel the baby’s kick, which can happen anytime bw 14 and 26 weeks:
quickening
The smallpox vaccine, discovered by _________ in 1796, was the first successful vaccine to be developed
Edward Jenner
Gaganyaan will have a total of 3 flights- ___ unmanned and ___ manned
2 unmanned and 1 manned
UK Covid variant has been named:
Alpha (B.1.1.7)
South Africa Covid variant has been named:
Beta (B.1.351)
Brazil Covid variant has been named:
Gamma
Indian Covid variant (B.1.617.2) has been named:
Delta
The WHO has labelled the strain found in Brazil in 2020 as ‘Gamma’, and the one discovered in the US as ‘_________’
Epsilon
NASA will send 128 glow-in-the-dark baby squids and some 5,000 tardigrades (also called _________) to the International Space Station for research purposes.
water bears
North Pole has shifted in a new eastward direction since the 1990s, because of changes in the _________ (meaning the way in which water is stored on Earth).
hydrosphere
WHO announced that the B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.2 variants of the Covid-19 - first identified in India - have been named as ‘______’ and ‘Delta’ respectively
Kappa
China’s _________ (EAST), which mimics the energy generation process of the sun, set a new record after it ran at 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
The three most stable isotopes of hydrogen: protium (A = 1), deuterium (A = 2), and tritium (A = 3). Which is the most common isotope of hydrogen?
Protium
Mars has been explored by several uncrewed spacecraft. _________ was the first spacecraft to visit Mars; launched by NASA on 28 November 1964
Mariner 4
_________ was the first of two spacecraft sent to Mars as part of NASA’s Viking program, landing on July 20, 1976. It was the first successful Mars lander in history.
Viking 1
In 1997, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft landed on Mars and on 5 July released its rover, _________, the first robotic rover to operate on Mars.
Sojourner
FDA has rejected _________’s proposal for an emergency use authorization of its covid vaccine, delaying the company’s vaccine launch in that country.
Bharat Biotech (Ocugen is its US partner)
The _________ mission was instrumental in the discovery of water on the moon. It was intended to orbit and study the moon for two years.
Chandrayaan-1
China’s EAST project is part of the _________ facility, which will become the world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor after it becomes operational in 2035
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
_________ is an adenovirus vaccine, which means it uses a weakened version of a common cold virus from chimpanzees to trigger an immune response
Covishield
Named after the world’s first artificial satellite, Russia’s SPUTNIK V is a vaccine based on _________ technology
Non-Replicating Viral Vector technology
SPUTNIK V is developed by Russia’s _________ and is the 3rd Vaccine to be granted emergency use approval in India
Gamaleya Institute
_________ had recently announced that it is working on a Nasal Vaccine for COVID-19. Acc to govt plan, 10 crore doses will be made available in India by Dec ‘21.
Bharat Biotech
Ahmedabad-based pharmaceutical firm Zydus Cadila has been working on a DNA based COVID-19 vaccine code named _________
ZyCoV-D
Another Indian Pharmaceuticals Manufacturer _________, a Pune based company, is working on developing an mRNA VACCINE
Gennova Biopharmaceuticals
Vaccinating everyone above 18 will cost only about
____________ per cent of the GDP, ratings agency India Ratings and Research said.
0.36%
The blockchain was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in ______ to serve as the public transaction ledger of
the cryptocurrency bitcoin
2008 (In 2009, bitcoin was created)
In a study published in the journal Immunity, a team found that _________ prevents pulmonary or lung inflammation in mice infected with SARS-CoV-2.
metformin (a blood sugar-lowering drug)
An electrical charge triggered by automobile impact causes _________ to explode and convert to nitrogen gas inside the airbag
sodium azide
Colour temperature is a scale relating the colour of the light radiated by an object to its temperature. Which colour of heat radiation represents the highest temp?
White or blue-white
Rickets is a disease of bones, in which they bend due to softening. This can be seen as bowing of leg bones in an X-ray report. The cause for the Rickets is:
deficiency of vitamin-D
_________ is known for co-founding Facebook, Inc. and serves as its chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Which is the force which is most powerful in determining the movement of wind including its velocity ?
Pressure gradient force
Atmospheric humidity is measured by _________. It measures humidity by taking both a wet-bulb and a dry-bulb temperature reading.
psychrometer
Which is the warmest layer of the atmosphere? It is directly above the mesosphere and below the exosphere
Thermosphere
Partners in Population and Development was launched at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) to implement the:
Cairo Program of Action (POA)
SI and cgs units of force
Newton and dyne
SI and cgs units of heat energy
joule and calorie
cgs unit of heat transmission
langley
SI and cgs unit of energy (work)
Joule and erg
The elements in the periodic table are arranged in seven horizontal rows, called _________, and 18 vertical columns, called ______
7 periods or series
18 groups
The elements in group 1 are known as the _________; those in group 2 are the _________; those in 15 are the pnictogens
group 1- alkali metals
group 2- alkaline earth metals
When an atom has an equal number of electrons and protons, the atom is said to be _________.
neutral
Non-metallic tendency _________ going from left to right across the periodic table.
increases
Electronegativity generally _________ as you move from left to right across a period and _________ as you move down a group
increases from left to right
decreases as you move down a group
______ elements are those elements of the second period which show similar properties with the elements of the third period
Bridge elements
Isotope have the same atomic number and position in the periodic table and nearly identical chemical behaviour but with different _________
atomic masses
Each of two or more isotopes of different elements, with the same atomic weight is called _________
isobar
Protons and neutrons have approximately the same mass, about 1.67 × 10-24 grams, which scientists define as one atomic mass unit (amu) or one ______
Dalton
An ______ particle is identical to the nucleus of a helium-4 atom
alpha
French physicist _________ opened a drawer and discovered spontaneous radioactivity.
Henri Becquerel
For his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity Becquerel was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, the other half being given to:
Pierre and Marie Curie for their study of the Becquerel radiation
Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin _________) and atomic number 82.
plumbum
Nuclear _________ is a reaction in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei.
Nuclear fission
______ is the process by which the sun and other stars generate light and heat.
Fusion
It is a nuclear process, where energy is produced by smashing together light atoms.
A ______ converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
dynamo
Dalton’s atomic theory states that all matter is made of atoms, which are _________
indivisible (which is not true)
In 1897, J.J. Thomson discovered the _________ by experimenting with a Crookes, or cathode ray, tube
electron
______ and Calcium are isobars because they have same mass number which is 40
Argon
Who discovered quite by accident in 1820 that electricity and magnetism are related?
Hans Christian Oersted
The world’s first biofuel rockets have been tested
successfully by __________
bluShift Aerospace
The world’s first 3D printed school is opening in
________.
Madagascar
_________ intends to create the world’s first energy island in North sea
Denmark
World Environment Day was hosted by _________ in
the year 2020.
Columbia (Pakistan in 2021)
The Indian Institute of Skills is coming up at
__________.
Gandhinagar, Gujarat
This day is celebrated as the World Radio Day. Identify the day and the theme of this year.
February 13. New World New Radio
The maximum number of the world’s river dolphins are located in the Indian state of _______.
Bihar
Finnish company ________ is sending the world’s first wooden satellite into space by the end of this year
Arctic Astronautics
India’s first thunderstorm research test bed is coming up at ______.
Balasore in Odisha
Recently, the World Sustainable Development Summit, the annual flagship event of _________ was held
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
This Manipuri Doctor has been bestowed upon the
‘Order of the Rising Sun’ award of Japan:
Dr. Thaangjam Dhabali Singh
_________ wins Israel’s Dan David $1m prize for ‘defending science’
Anthony Fauci
The newly appointed Director General of International Solar Alliance is ___________.
Dr. Ajay Mathur
This country witnessed the first ever case of the
swine flu in humans. Identify the country and the strain
Russia / H5N8
Name the Indian origin scientist who led the MARS -
2020 Mission of NASA.
Swati Mohan
_________ has announced the clearance of launching world’s first Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund.
Canada
Identify the name of the AI Based translation software launched by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh?
Amar Vasha
The present chairperson of the NASSCOM is _________.
U B Pravin Rao
Name the state that has 2 villages that have become the first in the country to use LiFi services.
Gujarat
This Indian state is associated with the country’s first
Digital Varsity. Name the state in question.
Kerala
Delta Plus variant or _________ is closely related to Delta variant. It’s categorised as a variant of concern
B.1.617.2.1
INSACOG (_________) is a consortium of 28 labs across the country
Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Consortia (INSACOG)
Which Covid variant is believed to be the most transmissible variant yet?
Delta, formerly known as B.1.617.2
Delta Plus is a sub-lineage of the Delta variant, which has acquired the spike protein mutation called _____
K417N (also found in the Beta variant, South Africa wala)
Unlike the single-stage Agni-I, the double-stage _________ will have a canister version
Agni Prime
Can you identify the name of the hydrogen powered
ferry and the country where it is plying?
MF Hydra Ferry / Norway
The first country in the world to issue the vaccine
passports is _______.
China
World’s first LGBT+ dedicated climate fund has
been launched by _________.
Britain
Can you identify the place that hosts the India’s first
forest healing center?
Ranikhet
Identify the place which will host India’s biggest floating solar power plant and the capacity of the plant
100MW / Ramagundam in Telangana
India opens Energy Office in ______ to expand investments and procurement
Moscow
Who will be heading the panel that is reconstituted for studying the Sarswati river?
Prahlad Singh Patel
Give the name of the company, and the compensation, that was awarded an arbitration award against India
Cairn Energy Plc. / $1.4billion
France’s _________ win Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021, dubbed the “Nobel Prize of architecture”
Jean-Philippe Vassal and Anne Lacaton
Can you identify the name of the insect that is named
after the New Zealand Prime Minister ?
Hemiandrus Jacinda
Can you identify the name of the ‘sounding rocket’, that was launched by the ISRO?
RH-560
World Air Quality Index -2020, the rank of India and the most polluted nation of the world are:
3rd / Bangladesh
As per the World Air Quality Report-2020, this city is
the most polluted city in the world. Name the city
Xinjiang
Name the giant Space Telescope that is deployed by Russia in the Lake Baikal recently?
Baikal GVD
Name the participating countries in the world’s first venture in producing Hydrogen from the dirty coal?
Japan – Australia
World’s first clean energy firm to enter into the World
Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network, is:
ReNew
Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) initiative was launched by Modi in ______
2019
The first state in the country to promote ethanol policy is _________
Bihar
Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) is applicable to the students of classes ___________.
6 to 12
_________ is the study of matters related to canines or domestic dogs
Cynology
_________ is a Greek veterinarian and the chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer
Albert Bourla
The first vaccine that was given the permission of
emergency use by WHO was _______.
PfizerBioNtech
The two most famous m RNA vaccines are ________ & __________
Pfizer BioNTech & Moderna
Which vaccine requires itself to be maintained at the
lowest temperature amongst the approved vaccines?
PfizerBioNTech / -70 degree C
DCGI granted permission to which company to import Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine?
Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company Cipla
Who is the chairman of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC)?
Dr Vinod K. Paul
Moderna’s _________ vaccine has an efficacy of approximately 94.1 per cent
mRNA-1273
___ (‘Heaven’s Palace-1” or “Celestial Palace-1”’) was China’s first prototype space station
Tiangong-1
China plans to complete its permanent space station that it by the end of _____
2022
The module of Tiangong, named “Tianhe”, or “___”, was launched on the Long March 5B
Harmony of the Heavens
In __, China sent its first astronaut into orbit, making it the third country to do so
2003
Who was the first person sent into space by the Chinese space program?
Yang Liwei
So far, China has sent two previous space stations into orbit. The ___ were trial stations
Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2
The new, 66-tonne, multi-module Tiangong station is set to be operational for how long?
at least 10 years
Tianhe is one of __ main components of what would be China’s first self-developed space station
three
Tianhe forms the main living quarters for __ crew members in the Chinese space station
three
The Tianhe launch is the first of _ missions needed to complete the space station
11
The Tiangong station will orbit Earth at an altitude of ___.
340 to 450 km
In later missions, China will launch the two other core modules, four manned spacecraft and ___
four cargo spacecraft.
ISS is set to expire in __, barring funding from its partners
2024
Russia has said recently that it would quit the project from _____
2025
The Chang’e-5 mission, named after the ancient Chinese goddess of the moon, will seek to ____
collect lunar material (first attempt in four decades)
China made its first lunar landing in ______ (Chang’e 3)
2013
In ____, the Chang’e-4 probe touched down on the far side of the moon, the first by any nation’s space probe
2019
As per ISRO, the total cost of Chandrayaan-3 mission will be over _____
Rs 600 crores
Gaganyaan is designed to have ___ crew members spend 3-7 days in space in a 400-km orbit.
3-7 crew members
Tamil Nadu government has started acquiring land in _________ district for ISRO’s second launch port.
Thoothukudi
_________ is the second of 11 missions needed to complete China’s space station around 2022
Tianzhou-2
Droplets range in size from the very small (referred to as _________) to large, but still less than a millimetre
aerosols
National Science Day is celebrated on ______ and has a connection with the discovery of _________
February 28/ Raman effect
The Hindustan-Tibet road connecting _________, in Western Tibet, passes through the Shipki la
Shimla with Gangtok
The Aswan Dam is built on the River Nile, just south of the city of Aswan in ______.
Egypt
Organic lead (_________) is used as an antiknock agent in gasoline and jet fuels
tetraethyl lead
Which bomb, when dropped on a city, will kill only the inhabitants?
Chemical bomb
Heavy, stubborn rust stains can often be removed by using _________
oxalic acid
Mach number is used in connection with the speed of _________.
aircrafts
When the raindrop is small, _________ pulls the drop into a spherical shape.
surface tension of rain water
A Geiger counter (Geiger-Muller tube) is a device used for the detection and measurement of all types of:
radiation
Stomach acid has a pH of ______ in the stomach lumen, consisting mainly of hydrochloric acid (HCl)
1 to 2
The ______’s main function is to act as a filter for your blood
spleen
An eye defect in which one cannot distinguish between vertical and horizontal lines is called:
Astigmatism
Most reptiles have two atria and one ventricle. The exceptions are ____ who have four-chambered hearts
crocodilians (alligators, caimans, crocodiles, gharials)
New Spider Species Named ‘_________’ After 26/11 Martyr Tukaram Omble in Maharashtra
Icius Tukarami
Animal semen for breeding of animals remains fertile for a long time at:
-196 degrees Celsius
Why do migratory birds go back to their earlier habitat in spring?
breeding instinct w season change, sex only in OG place
At a certain speed of a bus, the body of the bus starts vibrating strongly due to:
resonance
A motorcycle passing by disturbs radio and TV reception. The disturbance is cased because:
It’s electronic ignition system emits radio waves
Weismann’s main contribution involved _________, at one time also known as Weismannism.
germ plasm theory (continuity of germplasm)
Aurorae are a result of the interaction of earth’s magnetosphere with:
The solar wind.
You are standing in a lift. The force on the floor of the lift due to your weight will become zero when the lift:
moves down with an acceleration of 9.8 m/s sq
What happens to the level of mercury in a barometer tube when it is taken down a coal mine?
It rises.
_________ established the Central Public Works Department
Lord Dalhousie
Cyclones are characterized by inward-spiraling winds that rotate about a zone of _________
low pressure.
Contour Bunding is an important measure that conserves _________ in arid and semi-arid (hilly) areas
erosion (soil and water)
The Earth is farthest from the Sun (_________) roughly two weeks after the June Solstice
aphelion
______ was the first spacecraft of its type to study the upper Martian atmosphere.
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution craft)
According to the IMD’s State of the Climate Report, the year 2020 was the ______ warmest since 1901.
eighth
______ typically has a cooling effect on global temperatures, but this is now offset by global warming
La Nina
El Nino and La Nina are the extreme phases of the _________ (ENSO) cycle.
El Niño and the Southern Oscillation
El Niño has a _________ influence on global temperatures, whilst La Nina has the opposite effect.
warming
The Indian Ocean region - the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, together reported ___ cyclones in 2020
five
IMD is an agency of the Ministry of _________ of the Government of India.
Ministry of Earth Sciences
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is headquartered in:
New Delhi
The Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine uses a harmless virus called an _________ to carry genetic material from SARS-CoV-2 into cells.
adenovirus
Sinovac CEO _________ has said a third shot of the company’s vaccine could raise antibody levels by as much as 20 times.
Yin Weidong
Zika virus is a member of the virus family Flaviviridae. It is spread by daytime-active ______ mosquitoes, such as A. aegypti and A. albopictus.
Aedes
As per the Global Malaria Report 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2019, a large concentration of the total malaria burden (94%) is in:
Africa.
In 2021, two countries _________ on February 25 and China on June 29 were declared malaria-free by the WHO.
El Salvador
The launch of National Malaria Control Programme in ____ and the National Malaria Eradication Programme in 1958 made it possible to bring down malaria cases
1953
Which is the only country outside Africa among the world’s eleven ‘high burden to high impact’ countries for malaria?
India
India is a signatory to National Framework for Malaria Elimination (NFME) 2016-2030 aiming for malaria elimination by which year?
2030
The _________ SARS outbreak was an epidemic involving severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.
2002–2004
Created in ______, Gavi is an international organisation - a global Vaccine Alliance, bringing together public and private sectors
2000
SARS-CoV-1 (2002): The outbreak was first identified in _________, Guangdong, China, on 16 November 2002.
Foshan
In the spring of 2009, a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged. It was detected first in __________ and spread quickly across the world.
the United States
The virus, which causes _________, is a novel coronavirus that was first identified in a patient from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on June 6, 2012.
Middle East respiratory syndrome
Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) or _________ (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses
Ebola hemorrhagic fever
Kerala’s was the third Nipah Virus outbreak in India, the earlier being in 2001 and 2007, both in the eastern state _________.
West Bengal
The Kivu Ebola epidemic was an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) that ravaged __________ from 2018 to 2020.
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
According to the WHO, a _________ is declared when a new disease for which people do not have immunity spreads around the world beyond expectations.
pandemic
______ Hydrogen is hydrogen produced using fossil fuels such as natural gas. Unfortunately this accounts from roughly 95% of the hydrogen produced in the world today.
Grey hydrogen
If the speed of a cyclone is more than ___ nautical miles per hour then a panel gives it a special name.
34 nautical miles per hour
In 2020, a new list of names of cyclones was released that had 169 names of cyclones, having 13 suggested names each from ___ countries.
13
Who is the current director general of IMD?
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra
Cyclone Yaas has been classified as a:
very severe cyclone. (MSW of 64-89 knots)
Tropical cyclones are called hurricanes in the North Atlantic and eastern Pacific and _________ in South East Asia and China
typhoons
Storms rotate __________ in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere
counterclockwise
IMD is one of the __________ Regional Specialised Meteorological Centres of the World Meteorological Organisation
6
_________ (India) is a “recombinant protein sub-unit” vaccine. It means it is made up of a specific part of SARS-CoV-2 - the spike protein on the virus’s surface
Corbevax
mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna), viral vector vaccines (Covishield and Sputnik V), inactivated vaccines (_________).
Covaxin, Sinovac-CoronaVac and Sinopharm’s Vero Cell
_________ vaccines use a modified version of a different virus (the vector) to deliver important instructions to our cells.
Viral vector vaccines
______ vaccines are used against: Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR combined vaccine), Rotavirus, Smallpox among others.
Live vaccines
_________ vaccines use a toxin made by the germ that causes a disease. These vaccines are used to protect against: Diphtheria, Tetanus.
Toxoid vaccines
_________, funded by the Department of Biotechnology, has created the world’s first database of genomic variations in oral cancer (dbGENVOC).
National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG)
Oral cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer among ___ in India, largely fuelled by tobacco-chewing.
men
Which country submitted a new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) target that aims to reduce its GHG emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels?
USA
China’s carbon emissions will peak before 2030 and the country will achieve carbon neutrality by which year?
2060
