| 1301 |
Brief heating of vegetables before freezing or drying mainly serves to: |
Agriculture
Preservation of fruits and vegetables |
Easy |
| 1302 |
Why is guava preferred for making jelly? |
Agriculture
Preservation of fruits and vegetables |
Medium |
| 1303 |
High sugar concentration preserves jam mainly by: |
Agriculture
Preservation of fruits and vegetables |
Medium |
| 1304 |
While making jam, a cook finds the boiling product at about 68.5% total soluble solids and it falls from the … |
Agriculture
Preservation of fruits and vegetables |
Hard |
| 1305 |
Which idea is most closely associated with Lamarck? |
Anthropology
Theories of evolution |
Easy |
| 1306 |
Darwin's main book explaining natural selection was published in which year? |
Anthropology
Theories of evolution |
Easy |
| 1307 |
Weismann cut off the tails of mice for many generations, yet the offspring were always born with normal tails… |
Anthropology
Theories of evolution |
Medium |
| 1308 |
What did Neo-Darwinism add to Darwin's original theory? |
Anthropology
Theories of evolution |
Medium |
| 1309 |
In a population of beetles, dark individuals are eaten less by birds on dark tree bark and leave more offspri… |
Anthropology
Theories of evolution |
Hard |
| 1310 |
Which feature is characteristic of almost all primates? |
Anthropology
Living primates |
Easy |
| 1311 |
Which living primates are the closest relatives of humans? |
Anthropology
Living primates |
Easy |
| 1312 |
A primate from South America has a broad nose with sideways-facing nostrils and uses its tail to hang from br… |
Anthropology
Living primates |
Medium |
| 1313 |
The hoolock gibbon found in north-east India differs from the rhesus macaque mainly because the gibbon |
Anthropology
Living primates |
Medium |
| 1314 |
Which combination of traits is best explained as an adaptation to life in trees? |
Anthropology
Living primates |
Hard |
| 1315 |
Which hominin is called "handy man" and linked with the earliest stone tools? |
Anthropology
Hominid evolution |
Easy |
| 1316 |
Java Man and Peking Man are fossils of which species? |
Anthropology
Hominid evolution |
Easy |
| 1317 |
The fossil "Lucy" shows a small, ape-sized brain together with a pelvis and leg bones adapted for walking upr… |
Anthropology
Hominid evolution |
Medium |
| 1318 |
A fossil hominin from Ice Age Europe has a stocky body, a large brain of about 1500 cc, Mousterian tools and … |
Anthropology
Hominid evolution |
Medium |
| 1319 |
Arrange the following in order of increasing average brain size: Homo erectus, Australopithecus, Homo habilis. |
Anthropology
Hominid evolution |
Hard |
| 1320 |
Which pigment is mainly responsible for differences in human skin colour? |
Anthropology
Human variation |
Easy |