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4901

A boy carved his initials on the bark of a tree at a height of 2.5 m above the ground when the tree was 5 m tall. In 10 years the tree attained a height of 15 m. The initials carved by the boy 10 years ago will now be found

UPSC Prelims 1988 General Science & Botany
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4902

An athlete claimed that his timing for a 100 m dash should be corrected because the starting signal was given by a gun fired from a point 10 m away from him and the timekeeper was standing close to the gun. The error due to this could be (in seconds)

UPSC Prelims 1988 General Science & Physics
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4903

Which one of the following is not correctly matched?

UPSC Prelims 1988 Physical Geography
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4904

Amniocentesis is a method for

UPSC Prelims 1988 General Science & Medicine
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4905

Assume that the consumer price index (1970 = 100) is at present 500. This means that

UPSC Prelims 1988 Indian Economy
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4906

The oldest Hindu epic is

UPSC Prelims 1988 Ancient Indian History and Literature
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4907

Among the sources of energy listed below which one is non-conventional in present day rural India?

UPSC Prelims 1988 Indian Economy / Energy
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4908

Who among the following have a right to vote in the Vice Presidential election but not in the Presidential election?

UPSC Prelims 1988 Indian Polity
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4909

Which one of the following countries has tricameral legislature with one House for each ethnic group?

UPSC Prelims 1988 World History / Polity
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4910

The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts its programmes on the 25 metre band. Which one of the following is the frequency of this transmission?

UPSC Prelims 1988 General Science & Physics
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4911

Gujarat has experienced drought for four consecutive years because of

UPSC Prelims 1988 Physical Geography
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4912

Man passed from the food gathering stage to the food producing stage in the

UPSC Prelims 1988 Ancient Indian History
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4913

Which of the following chemicals in automobile-exhaust can cause cancer?

UPSC Prelims 1988 General Science & Environment
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4914

Which one of the following has the lowest density of population per sq km according to the 1981 census?

UPSC Prelims 1988 Human Geography / Demography
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4915

Which one of the following is a non-metallic mineral?

UPSC Prelims 1988 Indian Geography
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4916

The saliva helps in the digestion of

UPSC Prelims 1988 General Science & Biology
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4917

The resolving power of an electron microscope is much higher than that of an ordinary light microscope because resolving power increases

UPSC Prelims 1988 General Science & Physics
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4918

Let E, E, E denote efficiency of a diesel, a petrol and a steam engine respectively. Which of the following is correct?

UPSC Prelims 1988 General Science & Physics
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4919

Charakasamhita is a work on

UPSC Prelims 1988 Ancient Indian History
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4920

Indian Standard Time (I.S.T.) is determined according to the local time of which one of the following longitudes?

UPSC Prelims 1988 Indian Geography
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4921

The latitude marked AA in the map represents

UPSC Prelims 1988 Physical Geography
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4922

The area marked ‘Y’ in the map represents

UPSC Prelims 1988 World Geography
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4923

The location of ‘X’ in the map represents the port of

UPSC Prelims 1988 World Geography
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4924

About 1.5 crore people are added every year to the total population of India. This means that we are adding every year a population equal to that of

UPSC Prelims 1988 Human Geography / Demography
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4925

Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?

UPSC Prelims 1988 Medieval Indian History
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