Q. Which of the following function(s) is an accurate description of the graph for the range(s) indicated? (i)      𝑦 = 2𝑥 + 4 for −3 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ −1 (ii)      𝑦 = |𝑥 − 1| for −1 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 2 (iii)       𝑦 = ||𝑥| − 1| ...

Q. The price of a wire made of a superalloy material is proportional to the square of its length. The price of 10 m length of the wire is Rs. 1600. What would be the total price (in Rs.) of two wires of lengths 4 m and 6m? (A) 768            (B) 832            (C) 1440          (D) 1600 Ans: ...

Q. A fruit seller sold a basket of fruits at 12.5% loss. Had he sold it for Rs. 108 more, he would have made a 10% gain. What is the loss in Rupees incurred by the fruit seller?             (A) ...

Q. The temperature 𝑇 in a room varies as a function of the outside temperature 𝑇0 and the number of persons in the room 𝑝, according to the relation 𝑇 = Κ (Θ𝑝 + 𝑇0), where Θ and Κ are constants. What would be the value of Θ given the following data? 𝑻𝟎𝒑𝑻25232.430542.0 (A) ...

Q. Tower A is 90 m tall and tower B is 140 m tall. They are 100 m apart. A horizontal skywalk connects the floors at 70 m in both the towers. If a taut rope connects the top of tower A to the bottom of tower B, at what distance (in meters) from tower A will the rope intersect the skywalk? ...

Q. Hema’s age is 5 years more than twice Hari’s age. Suresh’s age is 13 years less than 10 times Hari’s age. If Suresh is 3 times as old as Hema, how old is Hema?             (A) ...

Q. “It is no surprise that every society has had codes of behaviour; however, the nature of these codes is often_________ .”The word that best fills the blank in the above sentence is             (A) ...

Q. “The driver applied the_________as soon as she approached the hotel where she wanted to take a__________.” The words that best fill the blanks in the above sentence are (A) brake, break                         (B) break, break (C) brake, brake                         (D) break, brake ...

Q. A rod shaped bacterium has a length of 2 µm, diameter of 1 µm and density the same as that of water. If proteins constitute 15% of the cell mass and the average protein has a mass of 50 kDa, the number of proteins in the cell is (1 Da = 1.6 ´ 10-24g) Ans: 2900000 to 3200000

Q. The product of complete digestion of the plasmid shown below with EcoRI and HaeIII was purified and used as a template in a reaction containing Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase, dNTPs and -dATP in a suitable reaction buffer. The product thus obtained was purified and subjected to gel ...

Q. Consider a simple uni-substrate enzyme that follows Michaelis-Menten kinetics. When the enzyme catalyzed reaction was carried out in the presence of 10 nM concentration of an inhibitor, there was no change in the maximal velocity. However, the slope of the Lineweaver-Burk plot increased 3-fold. ...

Q. First order deactivation rate constants for soluble and immobilized amyloglucosidase enzyme are 0.03 min-1 and 0.005 min-1, respectively. The ratio of half-life of the immobilized enzyme to that of the soluble enzyme is (rounded off to the nearest integer)        Ans: 6 to 6