General-Studies Quiz For FCI Phase I 2022- 24th October

Q1. The sex of a newborn baby is determined by the chromosome inherited from –
(a) The mother
(b) The father
(c) Mother’s father
(d) Father’ father
(e) None of the above

Q2. Which of the following is responsible for controlling hereditary characters of the living cells?
(a) Enzyme
(b) Hormone
(c) RNA
(d) DNA
(e) None of the above

Q3. Gene is –
(a) A segment of DNa
(b) A segment of DNA and histone
(c) A segment of DNA, RNA and histone
(d) All of the above
(e) None of the above

Q4. The living content of cell is called protoplasm. It is composed of:
(a) Cytoplasm only
(b) Cytoplasm and meloplasm
(c) Nucleoplasm only
(d) Cytoplasm, nucleoplasm and other organelles
(e) None of the above

Q5. The proposition ‘equal volumes of different gases contain equal numbers of molecules at the same temperature and pressure’ is known as
(a) Avogadro’s hypothesis
(b) Gay-Lussac’s hypothesis
(c) Planck’s hypothesis
(d) Kirchhoff’s theory
(e) None of the above

Q6. Water boils at a lower temperature at high altitudes, because
(a) the air pressure is less
(b) outside temperature is less
(c) latest heat is less
(d) None of the above
(e) None of the above

Q7. Which one of the following gases is placed second in respect of abundance in the Earth’s atmosphere?
(a) Oxygen
(b) Hydrogen
(c) Nitrogen
(d) Carbon dioxide
(e) None of the above

Q8. China wares are wrapped in straw of paper before packing. This is the application of concept of
(a) impulse
(b) momentum
(c) acceleration
(d) force
(e) None of the above

Q9. When a body is stationary, then
(a) there is no force acting on it
(b) the body is in vacuum
(c) the force acting on it is not in contact with it
(d) the net forces acting on it balances each other
(e) None of the above

Q10. A passenger in a moving train tosses a coin. If the coin falls behind him, the train must be moving with
(a) an acceleration
(b) a deceleration
(c) a uniform speed
(d) any of the above
(e) None of the above

Solutions

S1.Ans. (b)
Sol. The sex of a fetus is determined by father as male parent provides gamete X and Y, while female parent provides only X. If gamete Y from father fuses with X from mother it will produce male while if gamete X from father fuses with X from mother it will produce female, hence it is the father who is responsible for the sex of the baby.

S2.Ans. (d)
Sol. DNA is responsible for controlling hereditary characters of the living cells.

S3.Ans. (a)
Sol. Gene is the functional unit of inheritance which controls the transmission and expression of one or more characters. It does so by specifying the structure of a particular protein. Genes are generally composed of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), except in some viruses where it is composed of ribonucleic acid (RNA).

S4.Ans. (b)
Sol. Protoplasm is the whole content of a cell enclosed within the cell membrane, including both the cytoplasm and nucleus.

S5.Ans. (a)
Sol. The law is named after Amedeo Avogadro who, in 1811, hypothesized that two given samples of an ideal gas, of the same volume and at the same temperature and pressure, contain the same number of molecules.

S6.Ans. (a)
Sol. High-altitude cooking is the opposite of pressure cooking in that the boiling point of water is lower at higher altitudes due to the decreased atmospheric pressure. This may require an increase in cooking times or temperature and alterations of recipe ingredients.

S7.Ans. (a)
Sol. In Earth’s atmosphere nitrogen is most abundant while oxygen is the second most abundant.

S8.Ans. (a)
Sol. As a certain impulse applied for a short time will give a large force so the chinaware breaks into pieces. Therefore, chinaware is wrapped in straw of paper while packing so that the event of fall (impact) will take a longer time to reach the chinaware through straw of paper and hence the average force exerted on the chinaware is small and chances of its breaking reduce.

S9.Ans. (d)
Sol. For both stationary and moving objects with unchanging speed and direction, all the forces acting on the objects are in balance with each other, i.e. they all cancel each other.

S10.Ans. (a)
Sol. If the train were moving with uniform velocity, the coin would fall back to the passenger’s hand. While, if the train is accelerated, the horizontal velocity of the train would be more than that of the coin by the time the coin returns. Therefore, the train travels a greater horizontal distance than the coin and coin falls behind the passenger.