CDS GK Questions 2026

Energy equals power multiplied by time: 0.1 kW × 30 hours = 3 kWh, which is 3 units. The bulb's power is 100 W, which is 0.1 kW.

Chromosomes are made of DNA wound around proteins, mainly histones; together this DNA-protein material is called chromatin. In eukaryotic cells, a very long DNA molecule wraps around groups of eight histone proteins to form beads called nucleosomes.

A qubit, short for quantum bit, is the basic unit of information in a quantum computer, just as the bit is in an ordinary computer.

Chlorophyll is held in the chloroplasts, the green plastids of leaf cells where photosynthesis takes place. A chloroplast is a double-membrane organelle.

The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve spreads across Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, meeting where the Western and Eastern Ghats join. Set up in 1986, the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve was India's first biosphere reserve and in 2000 became the first in India to join UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves.

When a conductor moves in a magnetic field and a current is induced in it, this rule gives the direction of that induced current.

HIV infects and destroys helper T lymphocytes, the white blood cells that coordinate the body's immune response, so immunity steadily collapses.

Cancer is uncontrolled cell division that follows the loss of the checks that normally govern growth. Normal cells divide only when signalled and stop when they touch neighbouring cells, a property called contact inhibition.

Blue baby syndrome, or methaemoglobinaemia, strikes infants who drink water with excess nitrate, usually from fertiliser runoff or sewage. In an infant's digestive system, nitrate is converted into nitrite, which oxidises the iron of haemoglobin and turns it into methaemoglobin.

A kelvin and a degree Celsius are the same size, but the Kelvin scale starts at absolute zero, which is −273.15 °C. The kelvin is the SI unit of temperature.

Hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide all exist as gases at about 25 °C and normal atmospheric pressure. Hydrogen boils at about −253 °C, nitrogen at −196 °C and oxygen at −183 °C, so all three are gases at room temperature.

He was called Danka Shah, the drum-beating maulvi, because he moved from place to place with drums announcing his preaching against British rule.

A plane mirror always forms a virtual image, one that cannot be caught on a screen, so calling it real is the false statement.

The tundra is too cold, with a very short growing season and permanently frozen subsoil, for trees to grow, so it has no timber.

Gokhale moved the Elementary Education Bill in the Imperial Legislative Council in 1911 to make primary education free and compulsory.

The F2 genotypes come out as 1 TT: 2 Tt: 1 tt, so pure tall plants (TT) and short plants (tt) are equal in number.

Methanoic acid, better known as formic acid, is the acid that ants inject when they sting, which is why the bite burns.

The stinging hairs of the nettle inject methanoic acid, also called formic acid, which causes the burning pain. Nettle is a herbaceous plant whose leaves carry fine, brittle hairs.

A microphone turns sound into an electrical signal, and a speaker turns an electrical signal back into sound. Both are transducers, devices that change energy from one form to another.

Only this equation has the same number of iron, hydrogen and oxygen atoms on both sides. Iron reacts with steam to form iron(II,III) oxide and hydrogen gas.