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Post harvest factors affecting vase life of cut flowers are: 

• Temperature 
• Light 
• Humidity 
• Water Quality 
• Ethylene sensitivity 
• Preservatives 
• Ventilation 
• Packaging 
• Diseases and pests

The Kalpakkam Nuclear Power Plant and the Koodankulam Nuclear Power plant are the major nuclear energy plants for the energy grid.

(c) Both (a) and (b)

1. Mega food parks, Integrated cold chain, Value Addition Preservation, Infrastructure and modernization of slaughter house. 

2. Scheme for quality Assurance, Codex Standards, Research and Development and other promotional activities.

1. Liquidity preference means the preference of the people to hold wealth in the form of liquid cash rather than in other non – liquid assets like bonds, securities, bills of exchange, land, building, gold etc. 

2. “Liquidity Preference is the preference to have an equal amount of cash rather than of claims against other”.

1. Tamil Nadu has three major ports; one each at Chennai, Ennore, and Thoothukudi as well as one intermediate port in Nagpattinam, and 23 minor ports. 

2. All the minor ports are managed by the Tamil Nadu Maritime Board, Chennai Port. 

3. Ennore port was recently converted from an intermediate port to a major port and handles all the coal and ore traffic in Tamil Nadu.

(d) Homogeneous goods

(a) Factors of production

The function relationship between cost and output is expressed as ‘Cost Function’. 

A Cost Function may be written as

C = f(Q)

Eg. TC = Q³ – 18Q² + 91Q + 12

Where, C = Cost and Q = Quantity of output. Cost functions are derived functions because they are derived from Production Functions.

The concept of ‘Quasi – Rent’ is associated with Marshall.

The concept of quasi-rent was given by Alfred Marshall. He defined quasi rent as surplus earnings generated by the factors of production, except land. The earnings from machines and instruments are termed as quasi-rent. The quasi-rent refers to the income produced when the demand for products increases suddenly. It is used for a short-period of time.

Rent is the price or reward given for the use of land or house or a machine to the owner. But, in Economics, “Rent” or “Economic Rent” refers to that part of payment made by a tenant to his land lords for the use of land only.

62 – 34 = 4x ⇒ 28 = 4x

28 ÷ 5 – 4 = 1x

∴ x = 7

Rent is the price or reward given for the use of land or house or a machine to the owner. But, in Economics, “Rent” or “Economic Rent” refers to that part of payment made by a tenant to his land lords for the use of land only

1. Producer equilibrium implies the situation where producer maximizes his output. 

2. It is also known as optimum combination of the factors of production. 

3. In short, the producer manufactures a given amount of output with ‘least cost combination of factors’ , with his given budget.

The important policy initiatives introduced in the budget for the year 1991 – 92 for correcting the fiscal imbalance were:

1. Reduction in fertilizer subsidy. 

2. Abolition of subsidy on sugar.

3. Disinvestment of a part of the government’s equity holdings in select public sector undertakings.

(d) All the above

1. exponential/log phase of an S – curve. 

2. auxin/IAA 

3. cytokinin/Kinetin/6 BAP/Zeatin/etc. 

4. leaves

Indole – 3 -butyric acid 

It initiates root formation on stem cuttings by activating root primordia.

Answer: equal electrons and protons

(c) Cytokinin

(b) Hastening of ripening of fruits.

Cytokinin(Zeatin).

It is otherwise called a declining phase because growth slows down.

1. Sigmoid curve 

2. Stationary phase

Ethephone

Merits:

1. It promotes female flowers in cucumbers. 

2. It fastens fruit ripening in tomatoes and apples. 

3. It promotes abscission of flowers and fruits.

Gibberellic acid.

1. Production of Seedless fruit 

2. Used as Weedicide

1. Auxin 

2. Root initiation, Apical dominance

(c) Gibberellic acid 

(a) Auxin and Ethylene

(b) Auxin : Initiate rooting in the stem cuttings 

: promotes flowering in pineapple

Ethylene : Promote rapid internode elongation in deep water rice plants

: Promotes the development of female flower in cucumber and increase the yield

It is the shedding of leaves, flowers, fruits, and bark. Abscisic acid(ABA)

1. Ethylene 

2. Gibberelline 

3. Auxin

4. Abscisic acid (ABA)

When apical bud is removed, it promotes lateral branching. It is due to the removal the auxin from the tip and growth of apical bud is inhibited.

Gibberellin causes the breaking of bud dormancy but auxin check the fruit fall and leaf fall. These two physiological functions are inhibited by ABA.

• 2, 4 – D (2,4 – Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid)
• 2, 4, 5 – T. ( 2,4,5 – Trichlorophenoxy acetic acid).

In the former growth is arithmetic type while in the latter initial geometric then arithmetic type.

The power of jotedars was more effective than that of zamindars. Unlike zamindars who often lived in urban areas, jotedars were located in the villages and exercised direct control over a considerable section of poor villagers.

Answer is Humayun

When unilateral light is given, auxin from the illuminated side shifted towards the shaded side and more growth occurs on that side. This causes the bending of the shoot.

(A)Aurangzeb

The correct answer is transient.

• A website is a transient cookie. 
• On the Web, a transient cookie, sometimes called a session cookie, is a small file that contains information about a user that disappears when the user's browser is closed.

• Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 while working at CERN.
• The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
• ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983.
• NCSA Mosaic ran on Windows computers was the first browser to surf the internet.

Concept:

Schmidt number is a dimensionless number and defined as the ratio between momentum diffusivity and mass diffusivity, and is used to characterize the fluid flows where both momentum and mass transfer are involved.

It is given by 

\(Schmidt\;number\;\left( {Sc} \right) = \frac{{Momentum\;diffusivity}}{{Mass\;diffusivity}} = \frac{{\nu \;\left( {kinematic\;viscosity} \right)}}{{D\;\left( {mass\;diffusivity} \right)}}\)

For higher Schmidt numbers, momentum diffusion dominates, and for lower Schmidt numbers, mass diffusion dominates

Schmidt number can be considered analogous to Prandtl number, while the

Prandtl number describes the diffusion of heat (thermal boundary layer).

Schmidt number describes the diffusion of mass (concentration boundary layer).

Crank effort is the net effort applied at the crank pin perpendicular to the crank , which gives the required turning moment on the crank shaft.

The component of force acting along connecting rod perpendicular to the crank is known as crank-pin effort. 

It is the graphical representation of the turning moment or crank effort for various position of the crank.

It turning moment diagram, the turning moment is taken as the ordinate and crank angle as abscissa. 

Given : p = 40% = 0.4 q = 1 – p = 70.6 6n = 6

Let ‘x’ be the number of vegetarians is a Binomial variate with the parameters n = 6 p = 0.4 and q = 0.6, then,

The p.m.f. is –

p(x) = nc_xp^xq^{n – x} ; x = 0,1,2, …… n

= 6C_x (0.4)^x (0.6)^{6 – 3} ; x = 0,1,2 ……… 6

(i) p(3 are vegetarians)

= p(x = 3) = 6C₃ (0.4)³ (0.6)^6-3 

= 20 x 0.064 x 0.216 = 0.2765

(ii) p(atleast one is a vegetarian)

= p(x ≥ 1)= 1 – p(x < 1) = 1 – p(x = 0)

= 1 – 6C₀ (0.4)⁰ (0.6)^6-0 

= 1 – 1 x 1 x 0.046 

= 0,9554

The correct answer is Carbohydrates.

• Carbohydrates-
  • The largest part of most diets of vegetarians is made up of Carbohydrates.
  • Foods that are rich in carbohydrates are an important part of a healthy diet.
  • Starch is the main form of carbohydrate in our food.
  • Carbohydrates provide the body with glucose, which is converted to energy used to support body functions and physical activities. 
  • Carbohydrates are found in both healthy and unhealthy foods such as bread, beans, milk, popcorn, potatoes, cookies, corn, etc.