SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Any particle smaller than an atom is a subatomic particle, and the muon qualifies just as the electron, proton and neutron do.

Lysosomes are membrane-bound sacs of digestive enzymes that break down foreign material such as bacteria and worn-out cell parts. Lysosomes are formed by the Golgi apparatus and contain hydrolytic enzymes that work in an acidic interior.

In 1967 the Supreme Court held that Parliament could not amend Part III to take away or abridge any Fundamental Right.

Lipases split fats into fatty acids and glycerol. Fat digestion happens mainly in the small intestine.

A single-celled organism has no organs at all; the one cell takes in food through its surface or by forming temporary structures.

A healthy young human ear can hear sounds with frequencies from about 20 hertz to about 20,000 hertz. Frequency is the number of vibrations per second, measured in hertz, and our ears sense it as pitch.

The bombs thrown in the Central Legislative Assembly were meant to make a noise and be heard, not to kill anyone.

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

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.

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.

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.

A hank is the unit in which a khadi spinner's work is measured, and one hank equals 840 yards of yarn in length and one pound by weight.

KVIC is a statutory body established under the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act of that year, and the Act is what gives the commission its mandate to plan, promote, facilitate, organise and assist village industries.

Sales of khadi and village industry products in 2025-26 reached this level, the highest ever recorded for the sector, with the count taken up to May 2026.

The Narmada flows west down the rift valley between the Vindhya and the Satpura, crosses Gujarat and empties into the Gulf of Khambhat on the Arabian Sea through a broad estuary.

The Ken-Betwa link takes surplus water from the Ken, which is the river with the larger supply, and carries it by canal to the Betwa basin.