General Knowledge Questions for Competitive Exams 2013 July Updates Part 1

31. What does the letter ‘C’ denote in the UNICEF a well-known organization operating at global level ?

(a) Credit (b) Children (c) Control (d) Cooperation (e) Crisis

Ans- (B)

32. Which of the following is India’s most advanced long range missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads?

(a) Khukri (b) Basant (c) Agni-IV (d) Vijayant-IlI (e) Sindhudurg-II

Ans- (C)

33. Who among the following was one of the recipients of the Padmashri award in 2012?

(a) Anup Jalota (b) Shabana Aazmi (c) Aruna Irani (d) Leander Paes (e) Vidya Balan

Ans- (A)

34. Dr. Manmohan Singh unveiled the foundation stone of National Institute of Technology in which of the following places in Manipur?

(a) Bishnupur (b) Thoubal (c) Imphal (d) Senapati (e) Ukhrul

Ans- (C)

35. Mario Monti has taken over as the Prime Minister of–

(a) Greece (b) New Zealand (c) Russia (d) Italy (e) None of these

General Knowledge Questions for Competitive Exams 2013 July Updates

General Knowledge Questions for Competitive Exams 2013 July Updates

1. Which of the following countries recently signed a ‘Ceasefire agreement’ with ‘Karen Rebels’?

(a) China (b) Libya (c) Myanmar (d) Nepal (e) Egypt

Ans- (C)

2. Which of the following countries has recently decided to fix the term of the President of the country for 7 years?

(a) Iraq (b) Myanmar (c) Nepal (d) Libya (e) Turkey

Ans- (E)

3. India recently decided to purchase fighter planes from France. Which of the following is the name of these planes?

(a) Rafale (b) Boeing (c) MiG-35 (d) Lockhead Martin (e) Cassadion

Ans- (A)

4. India is now declared free from which of the following diseases after a long battle against it?

(a) AIDS (b) TB (c) Cancer (d) Polio (e) All of these

Ans- (D)

5. India recently decided to give US $ 1.5 million to which of the following countries to establish Vivekanand Chair in one of its Universities?

(a) France (b) Britain (c) Russia (d) Italy (e) USA

General Knowledge and Current Affairs for Competitive Examinations 2012 August Updates

General Knowledge and Current Affairs for Competitive Examinations 

.2012 is a leap year which is also the International year for Cooperatives, International year for Sustainable Energy for All.

 World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August in more than 170 countries to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babiesaround the world.

 General Bikram Singh - New Chief of the Indian Army (25th), succeeding General VK Singh.

 PSLV-C19 has successfully injected India's 1st indigenous Radar Imaging SATellite-1 (RISAT-1) into orbit. The total Cost of mission is about Rs. 500 crores.

Tissue Culture

Tissue culture is a technique applied to grow the tissues of plants and animals by in vitro culture. ‘In vitro’ culture means culturing the tissues outside the body of living organisms i.e. in the laboratory.

Plant tissue culture is developed based on a principle called‘totipotency’. Totipotency is the inherent capacity of a living plant cell to develop into a complete plant of the same variety. It is a peculiar character of plants. According to this technique, if a living plant cell is isolated from a plant and introduced in the standard culture medium, it grows into a mass of undifferentiated cells called ‘callus’. When the callus is introduced into another culture medium with plant growth hormones such as auxinsand cytotkinins, it grows into a complete plant with root and shoot systems. This plant is genetically same to the plant from which the cell is taken.