QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 07 June 2017

Solution: c.

Morarji Desai – erstwhile Bombay State;

Charan Singh – UP;

VP Singh – UP;

PV Narasimha Rao – Andhra Pradesh;

HD Deve Gowda – Karnataka;

Narendra Modi – Gujarat;

Indian Polity by M Laxmikanth;

IE: No desire to become PM: Nitish Kumar;

Solution: b.

• “DMH-11” stands for “Dhara Mustard Hybrid-11”.
• The Barnase-Barstar system (BB system) is a system for the production of hybrid seeds. Production of DMH-11 seeds utilises this system. In the BB system, genes from soil bacterium (or ‘trans genes’ that don’t naturally occur in a species) are used.
• An earlier version of the DMH (DMH-1) utilised the CMS (Cytoplasmic Male Sterility) system – this refers to a mutation that occurs naturally in plants or can be induced.
• With CMS, large-scale seed production isn’t possible. It has problems with stability and cannot be used in many mustard lines. With the BB system, one can keep making newer hybrids for traits such as disease resistance and productivity.

TH: Deepak Pental Interview;

Solution: b.

• So far, India has relied on the French (European) ARIANE 5 rocket to launch its heavy satellites and it has remained an important component of India-France space cooperation.
• A successful GSLV Mk III test makes India somewhat self-reliant in launching heavier communication satellites. Some of the other launchers in the market, such as Ariane 5 and the Delta IV Heavy, can launch even heavier payloads, of course.

BS: Why the GSLV Mk III is a big deal;

TH: In a new orbit;

Solution: d.

The ‘Inclusive India Initiative’ of the National Trust (M.o. Social Justice and Empowerment) is specifically catering to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities; with an objective to include these people in the mainstream and in all important aspects of social life, namely education, employment and community, ‘Inclusive India’ is about changing the attitudes.

PIB;

Solution: c.

• Mission Innovation (MI) is a global initiative of 22 countries and the European Union to dramatically accelerate global clean energy innovation. As part of the initiative, participating countries have committed to double their governments’ clean energy research and development (R&D) investments over five years, while encouraging greater levels of private sector investment in transformative clean energy technologies
• Mission Innovation was announced on November 30, 2015, as world leaders came together in Paris to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change.
• India was also one of the countries which took initiative in sowing the seed of ‘Mission Innovation’.

About Mission Innovation;

Improvisation: PIB;