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1. (C) 21. (A) 41. (B) 61. (D) 81. (A)
2. (B) 22. (C) 42. (C) 62. (A) 82. (D)
3. (C) 23. (D) 43. (D) 63. (D) 83. (C)
4. (B) 24. (C) 44. (B) 64. (A) 84. (C)

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8. (C) 28. (A) 48. (B) 68. (D) 88. (B)
9. (B) 29. (C) 49. (D) 69. (B) 89. (D)
10. (D) 30. (D) 50. (A) 70. (A) 90. (B)
11. (B) 31. (C) 51. (A) 71. (A) 91. (C)
12. (C) 32. (B) 52. (D) 72. (C) 92. (C)
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35.
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18. (B) 38. (A) 78. (A) 98. (B)
58. (C)
19. (C) 39. (C) 79. (C) 99. (C)
59. (A)
20. (C) 40. (D) 80. (C) 100. (D)
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1. (C) 14. (C) In the Constitution of India, the provision
2. (B) India's economic development has not for the distribution of resources has been
been constant in the last decade and it in the form of sharing the tax revenues
has been fluctuating. Hence, statement and through the grants-in-aid. Statement
1 is wrong. Statement 2 is correct, as food (2) and (4) are wrong. There is no such
production has been varying since last few provision in the Constitution of India.
years.

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15. (D) If the per capita income is increasing in
3. (C) Regular G.D.P. growth has been the economy, then the demand will
considered as the major indicator of definitely increase.

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economic growth in Indian economy. 16. (C)
4. (B) Natural growth rate of population is the 17. (B)
difference between Crude Birth Rate and
18. (B)
Crude Death Rate. 19. (C) If the government ensures that more
5. (B) children are attending schools it will
6. (D) Central government provides 50% of the enhance the education standards and by
total capital of the RRBs through NABARD reducing child malnutrition the health
and RRBs give loans to the cobwebbed
sections of the society. Hence correct
option is (D).
m standard will improve Improving the main
components of HDI-Health education, per
capita income will enhance the Human
7. (C) Statement I is correct. Statement 2 Development Index. Hence statements 2
because ICAR is headquartered in the and 3 are correct.
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New Delhi Statement. 3 is wrong because 20. (C)
the Chairman of the general body is 21. (A) Governor has no power of relaxation or to
Agricultural Minister. Statement is commute any punishment awarded by
correct. Hence (c) is correct answer. court martial. These powers are vested
8. (C) in the President.
9. (B) Statement 1 is incorrect because 22. (C)
Chairman of the National Commission on 23. (D) Andaman and Nicobar island
Population is the Prime Minister. Rest all
Jurisdiction-Calcutta High Court.
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three statements correct. 24. (C) Deputy Governor is the executive head of
10. (D) CSR's Idea is applicable to both public and
Andaman & Nicobar islands.
private companies. Payment made by
company to its employees and donation 25. (A)
to a political party is not to be considered 26. (C)
as CSR. Expenditure by the companies on 27. (D)
conservation of Environment is considered 28. (A) The advice given by Supreme Court
as CSR. during examining the charge of
11. (B) It provides employment to almost 90% of misbehaviour on members of Union
the population and contributes to almost Public Service Commission in mandatory
half of the GDP. Currently, various rules for the President.
have been made for the people working 29.(C)
in this sector along with various social 30. (D) National Commission for Scheduled Caste
security measures have been initiated. is a constitutional body. This has been
12. (C) set up by article 338 of the Constitution.
13. (D) Price erosion means the decrease in the Other National Commissions like
value of a product with the time. Physical National Woman Commission (1992)
Capital like machines face continuous National Commission for Minorities
erosion of value. Human capital too (1993) etc, are Statutory Commissions
erodes with the age because the but not the constitutional because these
efficiency goes down. The value of have been set up by the parliament act.
currency also undergoes erosion on the 31. (C) (I)The provision of special officer for
basis of supply and demand. linguistic by seventh constitutional
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amendment act, 1956 was made under 46. (D) Master Control Facility - Hassan.
article 350 B of Part XVII of the 47. (D) India is trying to be the member of all 4
Constitution. groups but a present it is member of none
(II) The headquarter of the Commissioner of the groups.
is in Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh). It's 3
48. (B) DNA profiling (also called DNA
regional offices are in Belgaum
fingerprinting, DNA testing, or DNA
(Karnataka), Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and
typing) is forensic technique used to
Kolkata (West Bengal). identify individuals by characteristics of
32. (B) The salary of Comptroller and Auditor their DNA. A DNA profile is a small set of
General of India is same as salary of DNA variations that is very likely to be

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34. (C) Attorney General of India can participate fingerprints. DNA profiling should not be
in joint session of both the houses of the confused with full genome sequencing.
Parliament without having right to vote. 49. (D) It will be placed into a Low Earth Orbit of
35.(C) National Development Council was 800 km. The ambitious solar mission will
established in August, 1952 on the study the sun's outer most layers, the
recommendations of executive of the corona and the chromosphere. It will
Government of India. collect data about coronal mass ejection,
36. (C) Tenure of Chairman or member of the
National Human Right Commission is for
5 years or upto completion of the age of
70 years.
m which will also yield information for space
weather prediction. After a seven year
long wait, Aditya, India's first dedicated
scientific mission to study the sun, is
37. (D) likely to get a go-ahead from the Prime
Minister's Office (PMO). It will be
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38.(A) Information Commission is not a
constitutional body. launched in 2019-20 timeframe.
50. (A) Contactless payment systems are credit
39. (C)
cards and debit cards, key fobs, cards or
40. (D) 92nd constitutional amendment added
other devices, including smartphones and
Maithali, Boda, Dogari and Santhali
other mobile devices, that use radio-
languages. frequency identification (RFID) or Near
41. (B) Any disciplinary action against All India Field Communication (NFC) for making
Services officers can be taken only by the
secure payments.
Central Government.
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51. (A) WiMAX is an OFDMA-based data-centric

42. (C) technology ideal for use in delivering 4G
43. (D) Under article 323(B), both parliament and mobile services. WiMAX is currently
state legislature have right to form being used by operators across the world
tribunal. precisely for this purpose. Today, WiMAX
44.(B) Dietary fiber consists of non-digestible is being embedded in hundreds of devices
Carbohydrates. Dietary fibers are found including USB dongles, MiFi devices,
in fruits, vegetables and whole grains and laptops and cellular phones.
coarse cereals. Dietary fibers are 52. (D) The SI unit of temperature is Kelvin.
important for our digestive health and Celsius is not an SI unit.
regular bowel movements.
Fiber also can improve cholesterol and 53. (C)
blood sugar levels and can assist in 54.(B) Total Internal Reflection (TIR) is the
preventing some diseases such as reflection of the total amount of incident
diabetes, heart disease and bowel cancer. light at the boundary between two media.
Rice have very low level of fiber as it is This can only occur when the light in a
medium with a higher refractive index
mainly made of digestible carbohydrates.
reaches a boundary with a medium of
45. (C) Maha Digital Locker is an online
lower refractive indees. In optical fiber,
repository developed by Government of
Total Internal Reflection principle is used
Maharashtra, where users can upload
to transfer signals. Optical fibers are
important documents that are required
for government jobs and services. Users made up of glass as well as plastics.
must have Aadhaar number to avail this 55. (C) Static friction is a friction between two
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relative to each other. Kinetic (or 72. (C) In some plants, stems are modified to
dynamic) friction occur when two objects perform different functions. Underground
are moving relative to each other and rub stems of potato, ginger, turmeric,
together. zaminkand, colocasia are modified to
Friction is independent of the area of store food in them.
contact. 73. (C) Leaves are often modified to perform
56. (A) functions other than photosynthesis.
57. (D) Compressed air and spring have potential They are converted into tendrils for
energy Battery and Capacitor have climbing as in peas or into spines for
defence as in cacti.

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electric energy.
The fleshy leaves of onion and garlic store
58. (C)
food. In some plants such as Australian
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length and indirectly proportional to the
lived.
area. Resistance has no fix relationship
with temperature. In conductors, 74. (C) Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum is
frequently observed in the cells actively
resistance increases with increase in
involved in protein synthesis and
temperature whereas in semiconductors
secretion. They are extensive and
and insulators, resistance decreases with
continuous with the outer membrane of
increase in temperature.
60. (D) Parallel currents flowing in same
direction attract and antiparallel currents
repel.
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75. (B)
the nucleus. The smooth endoplasmic
reticulum is the synthesis of lipid.

76. (D) Plant cell walls are made up of cellulose.

61.(D) Ripening of fruits involves various
Paper made from plant pulp and cotton
chemical reactions and so is not a
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fibre is cellulosic.
physical process.
77. (B) Oxygen travels from atmosphere to Lungs.
62. (A) Centrifugation is a process used to
separate or concentrate materials Because of the pressure gradient.
78. (A) Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)
suspended in a liquid medium.
was introduced in India in 1978 with
63. (D) Isotopes have same number of protons.
respect to river valley projects. Later the
U-235 and U-238 are isotopes. Isotones
EIA legislation was enhanced.
have same number of neutrons U-236 and
Environment Impact Assessment is now
Plutonium-238 are Isotones.
mandatory for 30 categories of projects.
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64. (A) Iodine-123 is radioactive isotope of Iodine

79. (C) Environment Protection Act, 1986 is Act
and is used for Brain imaging. enacted by Parliament of India. In the
65. (B) wake of the Bhopal Tragedy, the
66. (D) Helium is mixed with oxygen in the Government of India enacted the
cylinder for deep sea diving. Helium is Environment Protection Act of 1986 under
used to keep nuclear reactors cool. Article 253 of the Constitution. The
67. (B) purpose of the Act is to implement the
68. (D) decisions of the United National
Conference of the Human Environments.
69. (B) In thermodynamics, the term exothermic
They relate to the protection and
process describes a process or reaction
improvement of the human environment
that releases energy from the system,
and the prevention of hazards to human
usually in the form of heat, also in a form
beings, other living creatures, plants and
of light.
property.
70. (A) Octane number is a standard measure of
80. (C) The Montreal Protocol (A protocol to the
the performance of an engine or aviation
Vienna Convention for the protection of
fuel , In broad terms, fuels with higher
the ozone layer) is an international treaty
octane rating are used in high
which aims at protection of ozone layer
performance petrol engines that require
by phasing out the production of
higher compression ratios. numerous substances that are
71. (A) LPG mainly contains Butane. Water gas responsible for ozone depletion. It was
is obtained from opium and used agreed on 16 th September, 1987 and
medicinally to relieve pain. entered into force on January, 1989.
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81. (A) A carbon tax is a tax levied on the carbon 88.(B) National Green Tribunal (NGT) is a
content of fuels. India has been levying statutory body and is established through
st
Carbon Tax on Coal since I July, 2010. NGT Act, 2010.
The rate has been increased to ` 200 per NGT has 5 Benches - Principle Bench in
tonne in the Budget 2015-16. Few New Delhi and 4 regional benches each
countries like United States, Russia, and in Pune, Bhopal Chennai, Kolkata.
China are against Carbon Tax. 89. (D) The Ministry for Environment, Forests
and Climate Change launched The
82. (D) 2010-2020 is the UN Decade on
National Air Quality Index (AQI) in New
Biodiversity Nagoya Protocol provides a Delhi in 2014 under the Swachh Bharat
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and equitable sharing of benefits arising One Colour-One Description’ for the
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which is one of the objective of CBD. within his vicinity. The AQI considers
83. (C) Ecomark is a certification mark issued eight pollutants (PM10, PM25, SO2, CO, O3,
by the Bureau of Indian Standards (B.I.S.) NH3 and Pb)
to products conforming to a set standards There are six AQI categories, namely
aimed at the least impact on the Good, Satisfactory, Moderately polluted,
ecosystem. The marking scheme was Poor, Very Poor and Severe.
started in 1991. Ecomark is for a few hold 90. (B) IUCN's Headquarter is located at Gland,
and consumer products.
84. (C) The use of a single farm for multiple
purposes, as the growing of cash crops or
m91. (C)
Switzerland.
Olive Ridley turtle is a medium sized
species of sea turtle found in tropical
waters, primarily in the Pacific and
the raising of livestock is called as mixed
Indian Oceans. Although they are found
farming.
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in abundance but their population has
85. (D) been declined by half. The coast of Odisha
86. (B) The core zone is fully protected and in India is the largest mass nesting site
natural area of the Biosphere Reserve for them.
which is least disturbed by human 92. (C) • Gorewada Wildlife Rehabilitation
activities. It is legally protected, Centre- Nagpur
ecosystem in which entry is not allowed • Ecology Degradation Management
except with permission for some special Institute-Delhi
purpose. Destructive sampling for 93. (D)
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scientific investigations is prohibited. 94. (C) This survey includes 73 cities having
The buffer zone surrounds the core zone population above 10 lakhs. Mysore was
and is managed to accommodate a greater selected as the most cleanest city
variety of resource use strategies, whereas New Delhi got fourth position
research and educational activities. The and greater Mumbai got tenth position
transition zone, the outermost part of the from amongst top 10.
Biosphere Reserve, is an area of active 95. (C)
cooperation between the reserve 96. (D) All the given plants are angiosperms, they
management and the local people, lack chlorophyll. All these are parasitic
wherein activities like settlements are plants.
conducted in harmony with the 97. (C) Due to much water oxygen does not enter
conservation goals. in water logged soil, consequently roots
87. (D) A biome is large ecosystem where plants, of plants become unable to respiration.
Plants growing up in these soils carry air
animals, insects, and people live in a
certain type of climate. Most deciduous vacuole to store air.
forests are mostly found in Eastern India 98. (B) Organic elements in the soil are
increased, Nitrogen increases and their
and peninsular India's western found in
pH value decreases due to low
Eastern India and peninsular India's
temperature and heavy rainfall at high
western Ghat. Coniferous forests are
altitude.
found in middle Himalayas. Alpine biome
99. (C) Flow of energy in any food chain is always
is found in upper himalayas. Grasslands
unidirectional.
are found in Terai-Duar Region in the
100.(D)
base of Himalayas and many other areas.
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