UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Mitochondria carry out respiration, chloroplasts photosynthesis, ribosomes make proteins and the rough endoplasmic reticulum transports them. Mitochondria are called the powerhouse of the cell because aerobic respiration in them releases energy as ATP.

This follows the order of these metals in the reactivity series, and hydrochloric acid reacts fastest with the metal highest in it.

UNESCO has never won a Nobel Prize, while the other three UN bodies have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Several parts of the United Nations family have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Guntupalle Buddhist caves lie in the Eluru region of Andhra Pradesh, in the old West Godavari district. Guntupalle is one of the oldest Buddhist sites of the Andhra country, dating back to around the 2nd century BCE.

The GII measures gender gaps in reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market, and its value runs from 0 to 1.

Among the four States listed, only Assam and Nagaland touch Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal Pradesh is the largest State of the North-East by area.

The investigation found that the carriers drew the metal into thin wires and gave them a rhodium coating, which hides the colour of gold, and the same passengers also fitted gold into the inner linings of their trolley bags and carried gold paste inside the inner shells of those bags.

After the gold reached India it was handed over to handlers outside the airports, routed through intermediaries and taken to an illegal melting facility in that city; the melted metal was then supplied to a jewellery shop in Ahmedabad and sold against cash.

Gold brought into the country without declaration and without payment of duty is smuggled goods, so the three arrests in this case, which covered dealings in 13.017 kg of foreign-origin gold valued at about Rs 19.41 crore, were made under that Act.

The passenger intercepted at Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi had arrived from Ghana, and a careful examination of his baggage produced six transparent packets of white powder weighing 3.134 kg together, which field tests confirmed to be cocaine.

A passenger who arrived there from Delhi was intercepted, his baggage was examined and 5.166 kg of amphetamine was recovered, which is the biggest single haul among the three cases.

Amphetamine is a psychotropic substance and cocaine is a narcotic drug, so all three consignments, the one recovered at the Bengaluru airport, the one taken from a backpack near Nagpur and the one found at Terminal 3 of the Delhi airport, were seized under this Act and the arrests were…

Inter-State quarantine is a Union subject, listed with inter-State migration in entry 81 of the Union List. The Seventh Schedule divides legislative subjects into the Union List, the State List and the Concurrent List.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol is the most widely used international standard for measuring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions. It was launched in 1998 by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

Sautrantika and Sammitiya were schools of Buddhism, not Jainism, while the Sarvastivada view is correctly stated. After the Buddha's death the Buddhist order split into several early schools, traditionally counted as eighteen.

British rule pushed Indian farmers to grow crops for sale and export rather than for their own food. Heavy land revenue had to be paid in cash, so peasants turned to cash crops such as indigo, cotton, jute, opium, tea and sugarcane, which fed British industry and trade.

Article 142 empowers the Supreme Court, so the statement means that ordinary laws made by Parliament cannot limit the Court's power under it.

Elephant herds are led by an old female, and pregnancy can last up to about 22 months; statements 3 and 4 are wrong.

The prevailing winds push warm surface water west in the tropics and east in the middle latitudes. In the tropics the trade winds blow from east to west.

Of the three, only Rash Behari Bose worked actively with the Ghadar Party. The Ghadar Party was founded in 1913 at San Francisco by Indians in North America, with Lala Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna among its leaders.