CDS GK Questions 2026

Breaking down carbohydrates to release energy is respiration, which happens in the cytoplasm and mitochondria, not a job of chlorophyll.

Her return is earned outside India, so it is not in India's GDP, but it is earned by an Indian resident, so it counts in India's national income.

Biogas is mostly methane, with carbon dioxide as the second gas and only small amounts of nitrogen and others. Biogas forms when cattle dung, kitchen waste or crop residue is broken down by anaerobic bacteria, that is, without air, inside a digester.

The Special Drawing Facility is short-term, secured lending to States, but it is cheaper than the repo rate and comes before ordinary WMA, not after it.

Red blood cells far outnumber both platelets and white blood cells. A microlitre of healthy adult blood holds about 4.5 to 5.5 million red blood cells, about 1.5 to 4.5 lakh platelets and only about 4,000 to 11,000 white blood cells.

When the two mix, they release a rush of carbon dioxide that pushes water out onto the fire. In a soda-acid extinguisher a small bottle of dilute sulphuric acid sits inside a cylinder filled with a solution of sodium hydrogencarbonate (baking soda, NaHCO3).

Natural chlorine is a mixture of two isotopes, and their weighted average is about 35.5 u. Chlorine has two stable isotopes: chlorine-35, which makes up about 75 per cent of natural chlorine, and chlorine-37, about 25 per cent.

Nuclear power runs on uranium and thorium, mined minerals whose stock is finite, so it is a non-renewable source even though it is low in carbon.

Guard cells are specialised epidermal cells that surround each stoma on the surface of a leaf. Each stoma is a tiny pore bordered by two guard cells, which are bean-shaped in most plants and dumb-bell shaped in grasses.

Colson Whitehead's novel won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Underground Railroad follows Cora, a young woman who escapes a cotton plantation in Georgia.

Vitamin C has no carboxyl group; its acidity comes from an enol group in its ring. Ascorbic acid, C6H8O6, is a five-membered lactone ring carrying hydroxyl groups.

Above the threshold, the kinetic energy of the ejected electrons rises as the frequency of the light rises, so the statement that it does not change is wrong.

Charge equals current multiplied by time, so Q = 1.5 A × 0.010 s = 0.015 C. Electric current is the rate at which charge flows, I = Q/t, so the charge that passes in a given time is Q = I × t. One ampere means one coulomb of…

Platelets plug a damaged vessel and start the chain that forms a clot. Platelets, or thrombocytes, are small cell fragments made from large cells called megakaryocytes in the bone marrow.

Mendel worked out the laws of inheritance by crossing garden pea plants, Pisum sativum. Gregor Johann Mendel, an Austrian monk, carried out his hybridisation experiments between 1856 and 1863 in the monastery garden at Brno and published the results in 1866.

Ways and Means Advances are short-term loans from the RBI, and the scheme began in 1997. Governments often spend before their receipts arrive.

Both statements are correct about the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1920-22. The special Calcutta session of the Congress in September 1920 accepted Gandhi's programme of non-cooperation, and the Nagpur session in December 1920 confirmed it and changed the Congress creed: its goal became the attainment of Swaraj by all peaceful and…

Import cover is the number of months of imports a country could pay for with its foreign exchange reserves. It is worked out by dividing a country's total international reserves by its average monthly import bill.

. The Trade Disputes Act, 1929 set up machinery of courts of inquiry and boards of conciliation and banned certain strikes.

The Rule of Law Index is published by the World Justice Project, an independent organisation based in Washington, D.C. The World Justice Project ranks countries on how far the rule of law is followed in practice, based on surveys of households and legal experts.