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a) Behaviouristic approach, Cognitive processes, 

According to Koontz and O’Donnell, “Direction is the interpersonal aspect of managing by which sub-ordinates are led to under stand and contribute effectively and efficiently to the attainment of enterprise objective.”

It is a process of introducing the new employee in the organization to the existing employees and familiarizing him with the rules and policies of the organization.

According to Henry Fayol,” To organize a business is to provide it with everything, useful to its functioning – raw materials, machines, tools, capital and personnel”.

Policies are general statements that guide thinking towards a particular direction.

The following table gives an idea of range of technologies that fall under the category of ICT

The evaluation of ICT has five phases: They are evaluation in:

1. Computer 

2. PC – Personal Computer 

3. Micro Processor 

4. Internet 

5. Wireless links

In Economics, the uses of mathematical and statistical tools need the support of ICT for:

1. Data Compiling 

2. Editing 

3. Manipulating 

4. Presenting the results

In the 1918, Ambedkar published a paper “Small Holding in India and their Remedies”. Citing Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” , he made a fine distinction between “Consolidation of Holdings” and Enlargement of Holdings”.

(d) All the above

Uncertainty theory was propounded by the American economist Frank H.Knight. Profit is the reward for “ uncertainty bearing”. He distinguishes between “ Insurable” and “non – insurable” risks.

Insurable Risks:

1. Certain risks are measurable or calculable. 

2. Some of the examples of these risks are the risk of fire, theft and natural disasters. 

3. Such risks are compensated by the Insurance companies.

Non – Insurable Risks:

1. There are some risks which are immeasurable or incalculable.

2. The examples of these risks are competition, market condition, technology change and public policy. 

3. No Insurance Company can undertake these risks. 

4. The term “risks” covers the first type of events (measurable – insurable) 

5. The term “uncertainty” covers the second type of events (unforeseeable or incalculable or not measurable or noninsurable).

6. According to Knight, profit does not arise. 

7. On account of risk-taking, because the entrepreneur can guard himself against a risk by taking a suitable insurance policy. 

8. Uncertain events cannot be guarded against in that way. 

9. An entrepreneur takes himself the burden of facing an uncertain event, he secures remuneration.

10. That remuneration is “profit”.

(b) Economic agents

b. Fermentation 

b. Fermentation

a. Fibrionolysin 

Carlton Kitto. The film is titled Finding Carlton

National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development

d. Str. pyogenes

b. Lactobacillus Leichmanni

a. Mac Conkey’s medium

b. Gram negative bacteria 

Correct Answer is  Aru

Amarnath yatra

a. A spergilus niger

b. Trichoderma Koningi 

Pectinase is industrially produced from A. nigar.

a. 12–15 liters

d. All of these 

The correct answer is Dehradun.

• The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up in 1906 in Dehradun.
• It was first established as Forest School established in 1878.
• In 1988, the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) was formed and the training and research centers were given an independent status of institutes.
• Forest Research Institute, now one of the institutes under ICFRE, was conferred the status of Deemed University in December 1991 on the recommendations of the UGC, Ministry HRD.

•  The list of major forest-related institutions in India is as follows-
  • Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal
  • Forest Survey of India, Dehradun
  • Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy, Dehradun
  • Directorate of Forest Education, Dehradun
  • Indian Plywood Industries Research and Training Institute, Bangalore
  • Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun
  • Central Zoo Authority, Delhi

c. Sulphite waste liquor

b. P.chrysogenum

d. All of these

 The raw material for citric acid production is Corn.

d. Irradiation

d. All of the above

d. 25° C – 30° C

b. Surface fermentation 

c. Penicillin-G

 b. Corn steep liquor

c. Yeasts with acetic acid bacteria

(i) Cry protein enters into the insect and converts into an active form 

(ii) Protein crystal binds to the midgut of the insect create pores ,swelling and Lysis.

(iii) Man exploited this protein to produce insect resistant cotton plants.

d. Malignant tumors of the connective tissue

(i) Breeding with animals of same breed. 

(ii) Produce pure lines.

Phytoplanktons-- Submerged plants-- Submerged free floating plants-- Reed swamp stage--Marsh meadow stage--Scrub stage.

Lipases are used in detergent formulations.

Cyanobacteria fix atmospheric nitrogen.

(d) All of these

The process of evolution in which new species are produced from a single point and radiate in different directions is known as adaptive radiation. This is possible due to natural selection. One of the most common examples of adaptive radiation is that of Darwin's finches which he found on Galapagos islands.

An example of a nonpolar covalent bond is the bond between two hydrogen atoms because they equally share the electrons. Another example of a nonpolar covalent bond is the bond between two chlorine atoms because they also equally share the electrons.