Science and Technology is that segment of UPSC Civil Services Examination that scares most of the aspirants coming from non-technical backgrounds. One question is often asked that is, “How to prepare Science and Technology for UPSC?”
Along with answering how to prepare for Science and Technology for UPSC IAS Exam, BYJU’S Science Education Portal has answered questions from wide-ranging topics that are important for the exam.
The answers are tailored to aspirants’ needs. Not only from the static topics, questions are extracted even from the current affairs topics that are related to science and technology.
How will Science Questions & Answers help UPSC aspirants?
The Science and Technology Questions & Answers portal will help IAS aspirants in the following way:
- Clarity of topics – A variety of topics from science are covered that will bring clarity on how to approach this subject for UPSC.
- UPSC Syllabus is the source – Any topic that is important from the civil services examination point of view has been covered in the form of questions ans answers.
- From NCERTs to Current Affairs – Each question from a key topic that has been covered either in school textbooks or newspapers and is important from the exam’s point of view will be answered here.
The Higgs boson is known as the God particle due to massive obstacles and difficulties involved in detecting the Higgs boson particle. You can...
The Higgs Boson is a very elusive particle to find, and it is the only and first scalar particle that has been observed. You can read about the...
Bosons, quarks and lepton combine to form well-known particles such as protons and neutrons. There are six different types of quarks. You can...
The Higgs boson is known as the God particle. It was discovered in 2012, using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, located near Geneva in...
In the standard model of Particle Physics, the Higgs Boson (also known as God particle), is the elementary particle that decays quickly, it is...
Function of genes can be modified and sequences of DNA can be altered using Crispr. You can read about Gene-editing (Advantages and Concerns) in...
Although the prospect of the benefits that can be derived from gene editing is immense, for example genetic disorders could be prevented from...
In more than fifty percent of the gene editing experiments that were carried out by scientists, it caused changes that were unsafe. Hence gene...
Gene editing in humans is possible. Gene therapy is a well-known method of human gene editing. You can read about Gene-editing (Advantages and...
The risks of gene editing is that it causes changes that are absolutely unintentional. You can read about Gene-editing (Advantages and Concerns)...
Genes are used to perform gene editing. Replacement DNA is inserted by removing the already existing DNA. Cuts into DNA strands are done using...
Humans and mice share around eighty five percent of the genes. Animal genomes are edited to carry out research about the diseases that affect...
Spread over generations, the offspring will inherit modified genes through gene editing. You can read about the Gene-editing (Advantages and...
CRISPR is bringing changes in the way cancer treatment and research is carried out. It is a highly accurate tool used for gene editing. You can...
Changing the DNA of organisms using various technologies is known as gene editing. This gives the ability to alter, remove, add, genetic...
Poor control, prevention methods, overuse and misuse of antibiotics has created a situation where antibiotic resistance has become more common....
One of the most common types of antimicrobial resistance is MRSA which is better known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. You can...
The different types of antimicrobial resistance are drug inactivation, target of the drug gets modified, drug uptake gets limited, efflux of the...
In a country like the United States of America (USA), the antibiotic resistance led to the loss of productivity to the tune of $35 billion per...
The negative effects of antibiotic resistance are, it results in reduced ability to treat illness and infections in plants, animals, and humans....
