[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: Insights Current Affairs Quiz , 21 February 2022

Solution: b)

The Governor appoints the state election commissioner and determines his conditions of service and tenure of office. However, the state election commissioner can be removed only in like manner and on the like grounds as a judge of a high court.

It is not mandatory upon the State Election Commissions to adopt the Electoral rolls created by the Election Commission of India for the Lok Sabha or Legislative assembly polls.

Solution: b)

Fusion is possible only at very high temperatures, of the order of a few hundred million degrees Celsius, the kind of temperature that exists at the core of the Sun and the stars. Recreating such extreme temperatures is no easy task. The materials that will make up the reactor, too, need to be able to withstand such huge amounts of heat.

There are several other complications. At such high temperatures, matter exists only in the plasma state, where atoms break up into positive and negative ions due to excessive heat. Plasma, which has a tendency to expand very fast, is extremely difficult to handle and work with.

But the benefits of fusion reaction are immense. Apart from generating much more energy, fusion produces no carbon emissions, the raw materials are in sufficient supply, produces much less radioactive waste compared to fission, and is considered much safer.

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Solution: d)

The influential Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) retained its “Doomsday Clock” at 100 seconds to midnight, pointing to the continuing and dangerous threats posed by nuclear weapons, climate change, disruptive technologies and Covid-19.

The clock’s setting has been left unchanged in both 2021 and 2022. Since 2010, the clock has been moved forward over four minutes, and has changed by five minutes and twenty seconds since 1947.

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Solution: b)

The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) functions in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC). As per Rules, 1989, it is responsible for appraisal of activities involving large scale use of hazardous microorganisms and recombinants in research and industrial production from the environmental angle. The committee is also responsible for appraisal of proposals relating to release of genetically engineered (GE) organisms and products into the enviornment including experimental field trials.

GEAC is chaired by the Special Secretary/Additional Secretary of MoEF&CCand co-chaired by a representative from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).

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Solution: c)