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(#M40027290) KVPY QUESTION Mental Ability-2010 Keep an EYE

Athletes often experience muscle cramps. Which of the following statements is true muscle cramps ?
(A) Muscle cramp is caused due to conversion of pyruvic acid into lactic acid in the cytoplasm
(B) Muscle cramp is caused due to conversion of pyruvic acid into lactic acid in the mitochondria
(C) Muscle cramp is caused due to nonconversion of glucose to pyruvate in the cytoplasm
(D) Muscle cramp is caused due to conversion of pyruvic acid into ethanol in the cytoplasm

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(#M40027058) KVPY QUESTION Mental Ability Keep an EYE

150 g of ice is mixed with 100 g of water at temperature 80 oC. The latent heat of ice is 80 cal/g and the specific heat of water is 1 cal/gC. Assuming no heat loss to the environment, the amount of ice which does not melt is
option
(A) 100 g
(B) 0 g
(C) 150 g
(D) 50 g

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(#M40026962) KVPY QUESTION Mental Ability Keep an EYE

The value of tan81° – tan63° – tan27° + tan9° is

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(#M40027322) KVPY QUESTION Mental Ability-2010 Keep an EYE

A solution containing 8.0 g of nicotine in 92 g of water freezes 0.925 degrees below the normal freezing
point of water. If the molal freezing point depression constant Kf = – 1.85ºC mol–1 then the molar mass of
nicotine is-
(A) 16 (B) 80 (C) 320 (D) 160

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(#M40027323) KVPY QUESTION Mental Ability-2010 Keep an EYE

A bust cell has intracellular bacteria symbionts. If the growth rate of the bacterial symbiont is always 10%
higher than that of the host cell, after 10 generations of the host cell the density of bacteria in host cells will
increase -
(A) by 10 % (B) two-fold (C) ten-fold (D) hundred-fold

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(#M40027230) KVPY QUESTION Physical Ability Test Keep an EYE

Selection of lysine auxotroph (bacteria which requires lysine for growth) from a mixed population of bacteria
can be done by growing the bacterial population in the presence of-
(A) lysine (B) penicillin (C) lysine and penicillin (D) glucose

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(#M40027126) KVPY QUESTION General Ability Test Keep an EYE

If a man with an X-linked dominant disease has six sons with a woman having a normal complement of
genes, then the sons will
(A) not show any symptoms of the disease
(B) show strong symptoms of the disease
(C) three will show a disease symptom, while three will not
(D) five will show a disease symptom, while one will not

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(#M40027112) KVPY QUESTION Mental Ability Keep an EYE

Two friends A and B are 30 km apart and they start simultaneously on motorcycles to meet each other. The speed of A is 3 times that of B. The distance between them decreases at the rate of 2 km per minute. Ten minutes after they start, A's vehicle breaks down and A stops and waits for B to arrive. After how much time (in minutes) A started riding, does B meet A?
option
(A) 15
(B) 20
(C) 25
(D) 30

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(#M40026958) KVPY QUESTION Mental Ability Keep an EYE

The maximum value M of 3^x + 5^x – 9^x + 15^x –25^x, as x varies over reals, satisfies –
(A) 3 < M < 5 (B) 0 < M < 2 (C) 9 < M < 25 (D) 5 < M < 9

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(#M40027285) KVPY QUESTION General Ability Test -2010 Keep an EYE

If you compare adults of two herbivore species of different sizes, but from the same geographical area, the
amount of faeces produced per kg body weight would be-
(A) More in the smaller one than the larger one
(B) More in the larger one than the smaller one
(C) Roughly the same amount in both
(D) Not possible to predict which would be more

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