The acid that prevents the spreading of 'cancer cells ' is the folic acid. Folic acid helps make healthy red blood cells, which carry oxygen... View Article
The water trucks off of the leaves of lotus because their leaves have a waxy coating. The waxy surface of the lotus leaf is quite rough. When... View Article
Antibiotic is a chemical secreted by microorganisms (bacteria or fungi) that kills or hinders the growth of some kinds of bacteria. Penicillins... View Article
Assam , Gujarat and Rajasthan , which together account for more than 96 per cent of oil from onshore fields, and from the aged offshore Mumbai... View Article
Yes, Linux is an open source software. All underlying Linux source code may be used, modified, and redistributed, for business purposes or... View Article
The part of neuron that acquires information is dendrite and the part of neuron through which information travels as an electrical impulse is... View Article
Viscous force can be considered analogous to frictional force , but those have differences. Viscous forces in a fluid are proportional to the... View Article
A fundamental unit is a unit adopted for measurement of a base quantity.The fundamental unit for a particular measurable quantity is chosen by... View Article
The SI unit of resistance is ohm. One ohm is the resistance offered by a conductor when the current passing through. It is one ampere and the... View Article
The radius of a circle is the length of the line from the centre to any point on its edge. The length of the distance from the centre of the... View Article
Given that X+7 -8x/3 = 17/6 – 5x/2 On combining all the like terms we get X+7 -8x/3 +5x/2= 17/6 LCM of the denominators 2, 3 is 6. [6(x+7)-... View Article
The Global Positioning System (GPS) tells you where you are on Earth. There are five main uses of GPS: Location — Determining a position.... View Article
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) established the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) in 2016. It is an important government... View Article
UPSC Current Affairs Preparation: The Hindu Analysis Watch expert analysis of ‘The Hindu’ dated 12th April 2021. Important news and views to... View Article
Economy is an important part of the UPSC prelims and mains exams; this series titled ‘Economy This Week’ has been initiated to address the need... View Article
The Union Minister for Education Ramesh Pokhriyal has virtually launched the India Report on Digital Education 2020 in June 2020. This is an... View Article
Henry's law is defined as, at a constant temperature, the amount of a given gas that dissolves in a given type and volume of liquid is directly... View Article
Resistivity remains unchanged because resistivity depends on the nature of material not on Length. Resistivity of material is intrinsic property... View Article
Compressibility is the change in the volume of a substance (e.g. gases) as response to the pressure change. The SI unit of compressibility is... View Article