UPSC Current Affairs Practice Questions - 04 July 2024

1. Consider the following Technologies:

How many of the technologies mentioned above are used for gene editing?

(a) Only one

(b) Only two

(c) Only three

(d) All Four

2. Consider the following statements about Quarks:

Quarks are elementary particles that come in 6 ‘flavours’: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom.
They usually combine together in groups of twos and threes to form hadrons such as the protons and Neutrons.
Top Quark is 10-times heavier than a water molecule and 95% as much as a full caffeine molecule.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) 1 and 2 only

(b) 2 and 3 only

(c) 1 and 3 only

(d) 1, 2 and 3

3. Land Use and Land Cover Atlas of India is released by

(a) NITI Aayog

(b) National Remote Sensing Centre

(c) Ministry of Rural Development

(d) Ministry of Agriculture

4. SEBEX, SITBEX and SIMEX, recently in news, refers to

(a) Cutting-edge technologies in explosives

(b) Joint military exercises led by India

(c) Space missions of ISRO

(d) Blockchain-based platforms and applications

5. Naegleria Fowleri, recently in news, refers to:

(a) Invasive Alien Species

(b) Brain eating amoeba

(c) Microalgae used for Bioremediation

(d) Genetically engineered microorganisms

UPSC Current Affairs Practice Questions – 04 July 2024