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| 551. |
In Akbar reign, Mir Bakshi was required to look after..... |
| A. | Military affairs |
| B. | the royal house hold |
| C. | The state Treasury |
| D. | the land revenue system |
| Answer» B. the royal house hold | |
| 552. |
The theory of economic drain of India during British Imperialism was propounded by? |
| A. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| B. | R.C Dutt |
| C. | Dadabhai naroji |
| D. | M.K Gandhi |
| Answer» D. M.K Gandhi | |
| 553. |
The Battle of Plessey was fought in? |
| A. | 1757 |
| B. | 1748 |
| C. | 1782 |
| D. | 1764 |
| Answer» B. 1748 | |
| 554. |
To which kings the lion capitol at sarnath belongs? |
| A. | Chandragupta |
| B. | kanishka |
| C. | Ashoka |
| D. | harsha |
| Answer» D. harsha | |
| 555. |
The impact of green revolution, first of all witnessed in the state of? |
| A. | Bihar |
| B. | GujaratC.M.P. |
| C. | Punjab |
| D. | Rajasthan |
| Answer» E. | |
| 556. |
Income tax is a? |
| A. | Indirect tax |
| B. | Direct tax |
| C. | Both 1 and 2 |
| D. | Service tax |
| Answer» C. Both 1 and 2 | |
| 557. |
Insurance penetration is defined as the? |
| A. | Ratio of premium underwritten in a year to GDP |
| B. | Ratio of premium underwritten in a year to total population |
| C. | Ratio of insurance subscribers in a year to total population |
| D. | Ratio of total number of policy holders in a year to total population |
| Answer» B. Ratio of premium underwritten in a year to total population | |
| 558. |
Insurance density is defined as the— |
| A. | Ratio of premium underwritten in a year to GDP |
| B. | Ratio of premium underwritten in a year to total population |
| C. | Ratio of insurance subscribers in a year to total population |
| D. | Ratio of total number of policy holders in a year to total population |
| Answer» C. Ratio of insurance subscribers in a year to total population | |
| 559. |
As per the revised estimate of CSO, the GDP in India at factor cost during 2008-09 was? |
| A. | Rs. 28,71,120 crore |
| B. | Rs. 31,29,717 crore |
| C. | Rs. 44,82,436 crore |
| D. | Rs. 33, 39,375 crore |
| Answer» D. Rs. 33, 39,375 crore | |
| 560. |
Mid Day Meal Scheme? |
| A. | Is a centrally funded and largest school meal scheme in the world Link |
| B. | Provides each child in government and government aided school a minimum of 300 calories and 8–12 gm of protein each day of school for a minimum of 200 days |
| C. | Provides lunch to about 120 million children |
| D. | about 120 million children(D) |
| Answer» D. about 120 million children(D) | |
| 561. |
Hedging and speculation in forex markets? |
| A. | Are opposite activities |
| B. | Parallel activities |
| C. | Same activities |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Parallel activities | |
| 562. |
Product Cycle Model in international trade theory (Vernon, 1966)? |
| A. | Is an extension of technological gap model |
| B. | Is an extension of Heckscher-Ohlin model |
| C. | Explains dynamic comparative advantage of new products and new processes of production |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 563. |
A currency swap refers to? |
| A. | A spot sale of currency combined with a forward repurchase of the same currency—as part of single transaction |
| B. | A forward sale of currency combined with a forward repurchase of the same currency—as part of a single transaction |
| C. | A forward sale of currency combined with a forward repurchase of the same currency—in two different transactions |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. A forward sale of currency combined with a forward repurchase of the same currency—as part of a single transaction | |
| 564. |
Public-Private Partnership projects in India are mostly related to? |
| A. | Airports |
| B. | Ports |
| C. | Railways |
| D. | Roads |
| Answer» E. | |
| 565. |
The largest share in the short term money market of India in recent times belonged to the segment- |
| A. | Collaterised Borrowing and Lending Obligation (CBLO) |
| B. | Traditional repo |
| C. | Clearcorp Repo Over Matching System (CROMS) |
| D. | Call |
| Answer» E. | |
| 566. |
‘Quasi-rents’— |
| A. | Are in the nature of free gifts |
| B. | May be applicable to all factors of production |
| C. | Comprise of all the returns to the firm in excess of the returns of the marginal firm |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» D. All the above | |
| 567. |
The slope of an indifference curve expresses— |
| A. | The marginal rate of substitution of two goods |
| B. | A ratio of marginal utility of one good to another |
| C. | ) Both (A) and (B) |
| D. | A ratio of total utility of one good to another |
| Answer» B. A ratio of marginal utility of one good to another | |
| 568. |
‘Pass through’ effect in international trade theory refers to? |
| A. | The proportion of an exchange rate change that is reflected in export and import price change |
| B. | Exports and imports not facing any tariff barrier |
| C. | Exports and imports not facing any technical barrier |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. Exports and imports not facing any tariff barrier | |
| 569. |
The indifference curve technique is essentially— |
| A. | A cardinal approach |
| B. | An ordinal approach |
| C. | A quasi-ordinal approach |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» C. A quasi-ordinal approach | |
| 570. |
Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations— |
| A. | Started in 1986 and completed at the end of 1993 |
| B. | Aimed at reversing the rising trend of non-tariff trade barriers |
| C. | Replaced the GATT with WTO |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 571. |
Investment is defined as a— |
| A. | Deployment of a sum in business operations |
| B. | Purchasing an interest bearing bond |
| C. | Change in the stock of capital |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» D. All the above | |
| 572. |
Heckscher-Ohlin theory explains— |
| A. | Pattern of trade in terms of relative factor endowments of countries |
| B. | Why a country may import products which use extensively the country’s scarce factor |
| C. | The law of comparative cost |
| D. | The concept of reciprocal demand |
| Answer» B. Why a country may import products which use extensively the country’s scarce factor | |
| 573. |
The unproductive expenditure of the rich is____ |
| A. | Necessary to the employment of the poor |
| B. | An impediment to the growth of an economy |
| C. | Having no bearing on the economy |
| D. | Having bearing only on the economy of the rich |
| Answer» B. An impediment to the growth of an economy | |
| 574. |
Interest is paid— |
| A. | To compensate for inflation |
| B. | Due to superiority of present over future goods |
| C. | Because demand for money outstrips its supply |
| D. | To ensure the growth of the real sector |
| Answer» C. Because demand for money outstrips its supply | |
| 575. |
Profit is caused by— |
| A. | Dynamic element in the economy |
| B. | Innovation |
| C. | Windfall |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 576. |
‘Supernormal’ profit may exist in a market due to— |
| A. | Asymmetry of information |
| B. | Restriction of information |
| C. | Quantity restriction |
| D. | Price restriction |
| Answer» B. Restriction of information | |
| 577. |
A competitive firm maximizes its profit when— |
| A. | MR = AR |
| B. | MR = MC |
| C. | MC = AC |
| D. | MC = AR |
| Answer» C. MC = AC | |
| 578. |
The on-going melt down had its origin in— |
| A. | The real sector |
| B. | The financial sector |
| C. | The service sector |
| D. | The textile sector |
| Answer» B. The financial sector | |
| 579. |
Malthusian theory of population is based on— |
| A. | Harmonic progression of population |
| B. | Geometric progression of food production |
| C. | Arithmetic progression of population |
| D. | Geometric progression of population |
| Answer» E. | |
| 580. |
Gresham’s Law states that— |
| A. | Good money drives bad money out of circulation |
| B. | Bad money drives good money out of circulation |
| C. | Both good money and bad money may co-exist |
| D. | Neither bad money nor good money may be long in circulation |
| Answer» C. Both good money and bad money may co-exist | |
| 581. |
Say’s Law of Markets states that— |
| A. | Demand creates its own supply |
| B. | Supply creates its own demand |
| C. | Demand creates its own demand |
| D. | Supply creates its own supply |
| Answer» C. Demand creates its own demand | |
| 582. |
First dwarf variety of paddy developed in India is? |
| A. | Jaya |
| B. | Saket-4 |
| C. | Govind |
| D. | Narendra-97 |
| Answer» D. Narendra-97 | |
| 583. |
Sprinkler irrigation is suitable,where the soil has- |
| A. | Clayey texture |
| B. | Loamy texture |
| C. | Undulating topography |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 584. |
The weed that causes Asthma is? |
| A. | Hirankhuri |
| B. | Bathua |
| C. | Parthenium |
| D. | Krishna Neel |
| Answer» D. Krishna Neel | |
| 585. |
Jalpriya is a variety of? |
| A. | Maize |
| B. | Jowar |
| C. | Paddy |
| D. | Barley |
| Answer» D. Barley | |
| 586. |
Sugarcane Potato is an inter-cropping system of? |
| A. | Autumn season |
| B. | Zaid season |
| C. | Spring season |
| D. | Rainy season |
| Answer» B. Zaid season | |
| 587. |
Deficiency symptoms of calcium on plants first appear at- |
| A. | Lower leaves |
| B. | Middle leaves |
| C. | Terminal leaves |
| D. | All leaves |
| Answer» D. All leaves | |
| 588. |
DNA can be sequenced by the____ |
| A. | chemical method |
| B. | chain termination procedure |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | physical method |
| Answer» D. physical method | |
| 589. |
Okazaki fragments occur during? |
| A. | transformation |
| B. | replication |
| C. | polymerase reaction |
| D. | synthesis |
| Answer» C. polymerase reaction | |
| 590. |
In sperm heads, DNA is particularly highly condensed and the histones are replaced with small basic protein called? |
| A. | protamines |
| B. | purines |
| C. | pyrimidines |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» B. purines | |
| 591. |
Klenow fragment without free nucleotides exhibits? |
| A. | exonuclease activity |
| B. | endonuclease activity |
| C. | nickase activity |
| D. | no activity |
| Answer» B. endonuclease activity | |
| 592. |
E.coli DNA polymerases II and III lack... |
| A. | 5' → 3' exonuclease activity |
| B. | 5' → 3' endonuclease activity |
| C. | partially 5' → 3' exonuclease activity |
| D. | partially 5' → 3' endonuclease activity |
| Answer» B. 5' → 3' endonuclease activity | |
| 593. |
DNA helicase is used to? |
| A. | unwind the double helix |
| B. | interact the double helix closely |
| C. | break a phosphodiester bond in DNA strand |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. interact the double helix closely | |
| 594. |
Proteins involved in opening a replication bubble are? |
| A. | DNA helicases |
| B. | single stranded binding proteins |
| C. | ligase |
| D. | DNA topoisomerase |
| Answer» E. | |
| 595. |
The nucleosome consists of histone_____ |
| A. | octamer and 146 bp of DNA |
| B. | tetramer and 146 bp of DNA |
| C. | hexamer and 146 bp of DNA |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. tetramer and 146 bp of DNA | |
| 596. |
Enzymes, responsible for unraveling short segments of DNA is? |
| A. | DNA polymerase |
| B. | helicase |
| C. | DNA ligase |
| D. | primase |
| Answer» C. DNA ligase | |
| 597. |
Enzyme, responsible for proof reading base pairing is? |
| A. | DNA polymerase |
| B. | Telomerase |
| C. | Primase |
| D. | DNA ligase |
| Answer» B. Telomerase | |
| 598. |
A cesium chloride will separate DNA molecules by___ |
| A. | absorption |
| B. | resorption |
| C. | density |
| D. | adhesion |
| Answer» D. adhesion | |
| 599. |
If one cell has AT contents 40%, what will be the percentage of Guanine residue? |
| A. | 60% |
| B. | 15% |
| C. | 30% |
| D. | Guanine residue can not be calculated |
| Answer» D. Guanine residue can not be calculated | |
| 600. |
The overall conclusion of the Hershey-Chase experiment was that.... |
| A. | DNA was responsible for heredity |
| B. | proteins and DNA were responsible for heredity |
| C. | the ratio of Adenine to thymine was always the same |
| D. | phage DNA was similar to bacterial DNA |
| Answer» B. proteins and DNA were responsible for heredity | |