science & tech MCQ section 4 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

The first high-resolution 3D digital model of the human brain, which is called “Big Brain” has been published in the journal Science.

Answer: (d)

Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power station under construction in Koodankulam in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Russia is assisting India in the establishment of this plant.

An Inter-Governmental Agreement on the project was signed in November 1988 by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, for the construction of two reactors

Answer: (d)

The Supreme Court has rejected the Bayer’s appeal to cancel Compulsory License granted by the Indian government to Natco Pharmaceuticals to produce a generic medicine of Nexavar.

Answer: (b)

The 102nd session of Indian National Congress was held at Mumbai University. The theme was “Science and Technology for Human Development”.

Answer: (d)

Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun was a German-American rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and, subsequently, in the United States.

In his 20s and early 30s, von Braun was the central figure in Germany’s rocket development program, responsible for the design and realization of the V-2 combat rocket during World War II. After the war, he and some select members of his rocket team were taken to the United States as part of the then-secret Operation Paperclip.

Von Braun worked on the United States Army intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) program before his group was assimilated by NASA. Under NASA, he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the super-booster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.

Answer: (d)

Dream-Dynamic Response of the Environment at the Moons ARTEMIS-Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun LADEE-Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer MAVEN-Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (a mission to mars and not the moon)