[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: Insights Current Affairs Quiz , 15 February 2022

Solution: d)

Skeletal muscles normally brim with energy, yet they starve in the absence of Vitamin D, says recent research. This research demonstrates that glycogen stored in the skeletal muscles is not converted into a usable form of energy without Vitamin D.

Usually, the glucose absorbed from the food is converted into glycogen and stored in the skeletal muscle. This stored energy reserve is used by muscles to produce energy after the food consumed is digested. However, in the absence of vitamin D, the skeletal muscle is starved of energy, decreasing muscle mass.

We are becoming aware that vitamin D works more as a hormone than and is involved in a host of biochemical reactions. It is key to maintaining metabolic functions, immune system.

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Solution: b)

For LIC, the listing of the shares means higher visibility and profile. Investors will be able to actively trade in its shares on the stock exchanges. It also means more transparency from the LIC side which was hitherto answerable only to the government. LIC will have to inform the investors and exchanges details about all price sensitive information after listing. In short, LIC will be accountable to the investors and meet their expectations. Investors are expected to demand high level of corporate governance from the corporation.

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Solution: c)

Odisha reported the maximum fires among all states (51,968), followed by Madhya Pradesh (47,795) and Chhattisgarh (38,106).

SoFR, 2021 too acknowledged the link between climate change and forest fires, citing the global forest resources assessment 2020.

Forests are managed by the state forest departments.

The Union environment ministry supports the efforts of state / Union territory governments in preventing and controlling forest fire by providing financial assistance for various forest fire prevention and management measures under the centrally sponsored forest fire prevention and management scheme.

The dry deciduous forests, which receive low rainfall, face 5-6 dry months and have nutrient poor soil, such as those in tropical and subtropical latitude, are more vulnerable to fire compared to others.

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Solution: b)

From the Tibetan Plateau the river runs through China’s Yunnan Province, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

Solution: d)

The first Indian satellite, Aryabhata, launched in 1975, carried scientific experiments to investigate X-ray astronomy, solar neutrons and supra-thermal electron density.

Mars Orbiter Mission is ISRO’s first interplanetary mission to planet Mars with an orbiter craft designed to orbit Mars in an elliptical orbit.

Chandrayaan-1, India’s first mission to Moon, was launched successfully on October 22, 2008.