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l Cephaleuros is an example of parasitic alga
Success Tip Medieval History
The alga is parasitic on some important economic l Joseph Francois Dupleix was the French Gov-
plants of the tropics and subtropics such ernor of Pondicherry. Who tried to make the
as tea, coffee, mango and guava causing damage French Company as a powerful company
limited to the area of algal growth on leaves or killing l The most powerful Peshwa was Baji Rao
new shoots, or disfiguring fruit l The first Mysore War fought between the British
l Solitary cyrnose inflorescence is observed in and Hyder Ali in 1767 – 69 A.D., came to an end
Gardenia by the treaty of Madras
l The excretory aperture in Paramecium is known l The British Government intervened in the af-
as Cytopyge fairs of the Company and passed an Act in 1773
A.D., known as the Regulating Act
l IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) Technique was first
l Sher Shah defeated Humayun and captured Gaur
devised by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards
in the battle of Chausa in 1539 A.D.
l Just born baby has the respiratory rate as 32
times/minute Physical Geography
Success Tip l Laterite soil is the most infertile soil among
Black cotton soil, Alluvial soil, Laterite soil and
The normal respiration rate for an adult at rest is 12
Peaty soil
to 20 breaths per minute
l The special modified epidermal cells surround- Success Tip
ing stomatal pore are called Guard cells Laterite soil is rich in iron and aluminium, and is
commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet
Success Tip tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rustyred
Guard cells are cells surrounding each stoma. They coloration, because of high iron oxide content
help to regulate the rate of transpi-ration by opening l High temperature is responsible for lack of veg-
and closing the stomata etation in the deserts
l Transpiration through leaves is called as Foliar l Correctly matched:
transpiration Khadar – Azonal soil
Miscellaneous Podzol – Zonal soil
l The first woman to preside over the UN General Chestnut – Zonal soil
Assembly was Vijaylakshmi Pandit Bhangar – Azonal soil
l Direction of Sirocco storm is Sahara to Medit-
l The most advanced form Of Read Only Memory
(ROM) is EEPROM er-ranean Sea
l A computer program that translates one program Success Tip
instruction one at a time into machine language It arises from a warm, dry, tropical air mass that is
is called an Interpreter pulled northward by low-pressure cells moving
l Shah Rukh Khan is the brand ambassador of eastward across the Mediterranean Sea, with the
Nokia Phones in India wind originating in the Arabian or Sahara deserts
l Moisture is an abiotic factor
l ‘Canterbury’, the premium Indian brand of wool-
len cardigans and pullovers is from the house of l Solar eclipse occurs when the Moon comes be-
Monte-Carlo tween the Sun and the Earth
l Lionel Messi, the winner of four FIFA Ballion Success Tip
d’or and World Player of the year, belongs to Ar- A solar eclipse can only take place at the phase of
gentina new moon, when the moon passes directly between
l “Consumer Electronic Imaging’ Fair 2016", for- the sun and Earth and its shadows fall upon Earth’s
mally called as “Photo Fair”, was held in Mum- surface
bai. l A spinning neutron star is known as Pulsar
l The ‘more mega store’ retail chain belongs to Success Tip
Aditya Birla Group A pulsar is a highly magnetized, rotating neutron
l The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo star or white dwarf that emits a beam of electro-
l Headquarter of the International Olympic Com- magnetic radiation
mittee located in Switzerland l Light year is a unit of Distance
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