UPSC GK Questions 2026

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

Her return is earned outside India, so it is not in India's GDP, but it is earned by an Indian resident, so it counts in India's national income.

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.

The Special Drawing Facility is short-term, secured lending to States, but it is cheaper than the repo rate and comes before ordinary WMA, not after it.

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.

It is the umbrella scheme of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries for building modern infrastructure and an efficient supply chain from farm gate to retail outlet.

Colson Whitehead's novel won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Underground Railroad follows Cora, a young woman who escapes a cotton plantation in Georgia.

Vitamin C has no carboxyl group; its acidity comes from an enol group in its ring. Ascorbic acid, C6H8O6, is a five-membered lactone ring carrying hydroxyl groups.

Above the threshold, the kinetic energy of the ejected electrons rises as the frequency of the light rises, so the statement that it does not change is wrong.

Charge equals current multiplied by time, so Q = 1.5 A × 0.010 s = 0.015 C. Electric current is the rate at which charge flows, I = Q/t, so the charge that passes in a given time is Q = I × t. One ampere means one coulomb of…

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.

Mendel worked out the laws of inheritance by crossing garden pea plants, Pisum sativum. Gregor Johann Mendel, an Austrian monk, carried out his hybridisation experiments between 1856 and 1863 in the monastery garden at Brno and published the results in 1866.

Ways and Means Advances are short-term loans from the RBI, and the scheme began in 1997. Governments often spend before their receipts arrive.

The National Centre for Good Governance works under this department and organises the Capacity Building Programme on Urban Service Delivery for Civil Servants of Multiple Countries, held at Mussoorie from 12 to 23 October 2026.

BHASHINI, which serves as India's Language Digital Public Infrastructure, has had its language technologies built into that many government platforms, and these include more than 800 government websites, so option D names only the websites and not the full count of platforms.

During the ice-breaking session of the capacity building programme on urban service delivery, the Digital India BHASHINI Division deployed Shrutlekh to translate speech as it was spoken, working in both directions between English and Spanish so that delegates from Spanish-speaking countries could take part without a language barrier.