Teaching GK Questions 2026

A person with Down syndrome carries three copies of chromosome 21 instead of two, a condition called trisomy 21, so the total chromosome number is 47 rather than 46.

A human body cell has 46 chromosomes arranged in 23 pairs, of which 22 pairs are autosomes, the chromosomes that are alike in both sexes, and the remaining pair is of sex chromosomes, XX in a female and XY in a male.

RNA carries adenine, guanine, cytosine and uracil, and the uracil occupies the place that thymine holds in DNA, pairing with adenine in the same way.

James Watson and Francis Crick published the double helix model in 1953, with two strands running in opposite directions and bases paired on the inside, using the X-ray diffraction photographs produced by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins; Watson, Crick and Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in 1962.

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.

The plantation drive was organised in the NTPC area under this initiative by the Department of Swasthavritta and Yoga, and senior faculty members, deans and scholars of the Institute took part in it.

The campaign was conducted over a fortnight and was wound up on that date with a campus-wide cleanliness drive, a Swachhata Pledge and the felicitation of Safai Mitras.

After the Swachhata Hi Seva campaign ended, the All India Institute of Ayurveda moved on to Special Campaign 6.0, which was already under way and continues till 31 October 2026 with the theme of collecting, segregating and disposing of electronic waste effectively.

This was the theme under which the fortnight-long campaign ran at the All India Institute of Ayurveda from 17 September to 2 October 2026, and it ties participation in cleanliness to the larger goals of a clean and a developed India.

Roy Choudhury, a pupil of Abanindranath Tagore who became the first Indian principal of the Government School of Art at Madras, modelled Triumph of Labour, the group of four men straining at a rock that stands on the Marina beach at Chennai, and also the Martyrs' Memorial outside the Patna…

Maqbool Fida Husain, a founder member of the Progressive Artists' Group and often called the Picasso of India, made the short film Through the Eyes of a Painter, which took the Golden Bear for a short film at the Berlin festival in 1967; he later directed the feature Gaja Gamini.

Cholamandal Artists' Village was founded in 1966 on the coast south of Chennai by K. C. S. Paniker and other artists of the Madras art movement, and it is described as the first self-supporting artists' commune in India, where painters and sculptors lived together and sold batik and metalwork to…

The Lalit Kala Akademi, the national academy of art, was set up in 1954 at New Delhi, with the sculptor Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury as its first chairman; the National Gallery of Modern Art at Jaipur House in New Delhi dates from the same year.

Jamini Roy trained in the academic manner at the Government School of Art in Calcutta but abandoned it for the Kalighat pat, the cheap brush-drawn pictures sold to pilgrims near the Kalighat temple, and for Bengal scroll painting.

Sher-Gil was born in Budapest in 1913 to a Sikh father and a Hungarian mother and trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where Young Girls brought her early recognition at the Salon.

Raza, a founder member of the Progressive Artists' Group, moved to Paris, won the Prix de la critique there in 1956, and from the 1970s built his canvases around the Bindu, the black seed point from which, in his words, form and energy radiate, often combined with the triangle and…

The Progressive Artists' Group was founded in Bombay in 1947, the year of independence, by Francis Newton Souza, and its six members were Souza, M. F. Husain, S. H. Raza, K. H. Ara, H. A. Gade and the sculptor S. K. Bakre.