CTET GK Questions 2026

Yuva Sangam is the youth exchange carried out under that programme, and its seventh phase is being implemented by the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education with the aim of strengthening national integration and building contact between young people from different regions.

Wendell Meredith Stanley crystallised the tobacco mosaic virus and showed that the crystals were made chiefly of protein, work that proved a virus could be handled like a chemical substance and won him a share of a Nobel Prize.

In binomial nomenclature the first word of the name is the generic name, the genus to which the organism belongs, and the second is the specific epithet; thus Panthera is the genus that also holds the lion as Panthera leo and the leopard as Panthera pardus, while tigris is the…

Arthropoda is the largest phylum of the animal kingdom, holding more described species than all the others together, because it contains the insects along with the crustaceans, spiders, scorpions and centipedes; its members have a chitinous exoskeleton and jointed legs.

In a lichen the algal partner, called the phycobiont, photosynthesises and supplies food, while the fungal partner, the mycobiont, gives shelter and absorbs water and minerals; lichens grow on bare rock as pioneers and die in polluted air, so they serve as indicators of air pollution.

Mosses and liverworts grow on damp soil, rocks and tree trunks, that is on land, but they have no vascular tissue and their male gametes must swim through a film of water to reach the female gamete, so reproduction fails without water; living on land and breeding in water is…

Mycoplasmas are the smallest living cells known, they lack a cell wall altogether, and because of that they can change shape and are not affected by antibiotics that act on the wall; they cause diseases in plants and animals and are placed in the kingdom Monera.

The wall of a fungal cell is built of chitin, a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide that is also found in the exoskeleton of insects, and it is one of the main reasons fungi were taken out of the plant kingdom and given a kingdom of their own.

A species is a group of organisms that resemble one another in all essential characters and that can interbreed to produce fertile offspring; it is the smallest and the basic unit of classification, and all higher ranks are built by grouping species together.

Chlamydomonas is a unicellular, flagellated member of the Chlorophyceae, the green algae, in which chlorophyll a and b give the plant its grass-green colour and the food is stored as starch.

Robert Harding Whittaker proposed the five kingdoms Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia in 1969, using cell structure, body organisation, mode of nutrition, reproduction and evolutionary relationships as the criteria of division.

The Swedish naturalist Carl von Linne, known in Latin as Carolus Linnaeus, arranged plants and animals in a hierarchy of ranks and gave biology the two-word system of scientific names in his works Systema Naturae and Species Plantarum, so he is called the father of taxonomy.

The meeting gave them an account of the state's heritage, its traditions and their cultural significance, and was presented as deepening their understanding of India's diversity.

The correct answer is the Central University of Karnataka, which led the Telangana delegation on this exchange.

The correct answer is Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, the initiative under which the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education runs Yuva Sangam to strengthen cultural and emotional bonds among young Indians.

Phase VII of Yuva Sangam enables young participants to experience the cultural heritage, traditions, educational landscape and developmental achievements of different States and Union Territories through twenty pairings of States and higher education institutions.

Yuva Sangam is run by the Department of Higher Education in the Union Ministry of Education under the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat programme, whose purpose is to strengthen cultural and emotional bonds among the youth of India.

The Indian Institute of Management, Sambalpur, is the nodal institution leading the Odisha delegation on its Yuva Sangam Phase VII visit to Himachal Pradesh.

Under Yuva Sangam Phase VII the Odisha delegation travelled to Himachal Pradesh, reaching the State on 5 October 2026, where NIT Hamirpur is hosting it.

Both MY Bharat and the National Service Scheme function under this ministry, and the Yuva Sanwad Mela of 9 October 2026 was organised through them across 15 NSS Regional Directorates.