science & tech MCQ section 6 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

GSLV Mark III will be more sensitive than the PSLV and the GSLV to disturbances that might occur as it accelerates through the dense atmosphere.

Answer: (a)

The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) is an institution of basic research and training in physical and biophysical sciences located in Bidhannagar, Kolkata, India. The institute is named after the famous Indian physicist Meghnad Saha. This institute is well known to have many amazing types of equipment related to physics including a Van De Graff’s generator.

The Institute grew out of the Palit Research Laboratory in Physics of the University of Calcutta. After Professor Meghnad Saha returned from Allahabad in 1938 to succeed Sir C. V. Raman in the Palit Chair of Physics, he reorganized the post-graduate physics curriculum of the University of Calcutta to include nuclear physics by 1940 after realising the immense potential of the subject for the betterment of the country.

Soon the necessity of a small-scale cyclotron was felt for gaining first-hand knowledge in this virgin field which was procured from the fund raised by the help of Jawaharlal Nehru and the patronage of J. R. D. Tata.

Answer: (c)

Sriharikota is a barrier island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. It houses India’s only satellite launch centre in the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (also known as SHAR) and is used by the Indian Space Research Organisation to launch satellites using multi-stage rockets such as the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.

Originally called Sriharikota High Altitude Range (SHAR, an acronym ISRO have retained to the present day) and then Sriharikota Launching Range, the centre was renamed in 2002 after the death of ISRO’s former chairman Satish Dhawan.

Answer: (c)

The ozone depletion over Antarctic zone is more severe than in the Northern hemisphere.

Answer: (b)

Genetically engineered bacteria is used for production of insulin. On 5th July 1983, the American firm Eli Lilly launched humulin (1st genetically engineered human insulin).

Answer: (b)

Tuberculosis is not a vector-borne disease as it is not transmitted by the bite of an anthropoid