SSC GK Questions 2026

The correct answer is B, Wilhelm Johannsen, the Danish botanist who gave the words gene, genotype and phenotype, distinguishing the hereditary constitution of an organism from its visible expression.

In a dihybrid cross two pairs of characters are followed together, for example seed shape and seed colour, and the appearance of all four combinations in the proportion nine to three to three to one shows that the inheritance of one pair does not depend on the inheritance of the…

When two heterozygous plants of the first generation are crossed, three quarters of the offspring show the dominant character and one quarter the recessive one, because the recessive appears only when both factors in the pair are recessive.

Mendel chose it because it breeds true, is easy to cross by hand, completes a generation in a single season and offers seven pairs of sharply contrasting characters such as tall against dwarf stem and round against wrinkled seed.

Formed in 1955, it is the national body for amateur golf, runs the national amateur championships and selects Indian teams for amateur events such as the Asian Games and the Eisenhower Trophy.

A player may begin a round with no more than fourteen clubs and may not add to that number during play, except to replace a club damaged in the normal course of the round; carrying more brings a penalty.

Aditi Ashok won the Hero Women's Indian Open in 2016, becoming the first Indian woman to win on that tour, and she went on to represent India at the Olympic Games, finishing fourth at Tokyo.

Golf entered the Asian Games at the ninth edition, held in New Delhi in 1982, the Games whose mascot was the elephant Appu, and both individual and team events have been contested since.

Golf had been played at the Olympic Games of 1900 in Paris and 1904 in St Louis and then dropped out; it came back at Rio in 2016 as a 72-hole stroke play competition for men and for women, with sixty players in each field.

Founded in 1829, it is the oldest golf club in India and the oldest anywhere outside Great Britain, and it was given the title Royal in 1911.

The bird names rise with the achievement: one stroke under par on a hole is a birdie, two under is an eagle and three under is an albatross or double eagle.

Atwal won the Wyndham Championship in 2010 and so became the first golfer from India to win on the PGA Tour, the premier professional circuit of the United States.

The Ryder Cup is the biennial match play contest named after the English seed merchant Samuel Ryder, first played in 1927; the European side was originally Great Britain alone and was widened to the whole of Europe in 1979, and no prize money is paid to the players.

Often called the British Open, it was first played in 1860 and is the oldest of the majors; it is run by The R&A and its trophy is the Claret Jug.

The Masters, founded in 1934 by the amateur Bobby Jones with Clifford Roberts, is the only one of the four majors played on the same course every year, Augusta National in the state of Georgia in the United States, and its champion is given the famous green jacket.

Article 244(1) says that the provisions of the Fifth Schedule apply to the administration and control of the Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes in any State other than Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram.

The Constitution as adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949 had eight Schedules, along with twenty-two Parts and three hundred and ninety-five articles.

The Twelfth Schedule was added by the Constitution (Seventy-fourth Amendment) Act, 1992 and lists eighteen functions that a State legislature may entrust to urban local bodies under Article 243W, among them urban planning including town planning, water supply, public health and sanitation, fire services, slum improvement, urban poverty alleviation and…

The Third Schedule sets out the texts of the oath or affirmation for a Union Minister, a candidate for and a member of Parliament, the Judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts, the Comptroller and Auditor General, a State Minister and a member of a State legislature.

Article 246 distributes legislative power with reference to the three lists of the Seventh Schedule: Parliament has exclusive power over the Union List, State legislatures over the State List, and both may legislate on the Concurrent List.