Question Discussion & Solution

Concept:

• Plant growth hormones or phytohormones are simple molecules with complex chemical composition, that regulates the growth and physiology of plants.
• Based on their functions on the living plant body they can be classified into two groups:

1. Plant growth promoters - Promotes activities like cell division, cell enlargement, flowering, fruiting, etc. Eg. Auxins, Gibberellins & cytokinins.
2. Plant growth inhibitors - They are involved in various growth-inhibiting activities like dormancy, and abscission. Eg. Abscisic acid.

• Gaseous PGR like ethylene can be put into both groups, however, it is largely an inhibitor of growth activities.

Explanation:

• Ethylene is a simple gaseous PGR.
• It is synthesized in large amounts by tissues undergoing senescence and ripening fruits.
• Influences of ethylene on plants include horizontal growth of seedlings, swelling of the axis, and apical hook formation in dicot seedlings.
• Ethylene promotes senescence and abscission of plant organs, especially of leaves and flowers.
• Ethylene is highly effective in fruit ripening. It enhances the respiration rate during the ripening of the fruits. This rise in the rate of respiration is called respiratory climactic.
• Ethylene breaks seed and bud dormancy, initiates germination in peanut seeds, sprouting of potato tubers.
• Ethylene promotes rapid internode/petiole elongation in deepwater rice plants.
• It helps leaves/ upper parts of the shoot to remain above water.
• Ethylene also promotes root growth and root hair formation, thus helping the plants to increase their absorption surface.

Additional Information

The correct answer is Application software.

Key Points

• Spreadsheets, photo editing, PowerPoint, word documents, etc, are examples of Application software.
  • Application software, or app for short, is software that performs specific tasks for an end-user.
  • Effectively, if the user is interacting directly with a piece of software it is application software.
    • For example, Microsoft Word or Excel is application software, as are common web browsers such as Firefox or Google Chrome.
  • It also includes the category of mobile apps, including communication apps such as WhatsApp or games such as Candy Crush Saga.

Additional Information

• System Software
  • System software is a type of computer program that is designed to run a computer's hardware and application programs.
  • If we think of the computer system as a layered model, the system software is the interface between the hardware and user applications.
  • The operating system is the best-known example of system software.
  • The OS manages all the other programs on a computer.
  • System software is used to manage the computer itself.
    • It runs in the background, maintaining the computer's basic functions so users can run higher-level application software to perform certain tasks.
    • Essentially, system software provides a platform for application software to be run on top of.
• System software generally includes the following features:
  • High speed
    • System software must be as efficient as possible to provide an effective platform for higher-level software in the computer system.
  • Hard to manipulate
    • It often requires the use of a programming language, which is more difficult to use than a more intuitive user interface (UI).
  • Written in a low-level computer language
    • System software must be written in a computer language the central processing unit (CPU) and other computer hardware can read.
  • Close to the system
    • It connects directly to the hardware that enables the computer to run.
  • Versatile
    • System software must communicate with both the specialized hardware it runs on and the higher-level application software that is usually hardware-agnostic and often has no direct connection to the hardware it runs on. 
• The platform is hardware and software architecture that acts as a foundation or base upon which other applications, processes, or technologies are developed.
  • In computing, platform refers to basic hardware i.e., computer system, and software i.e., the operating system on which software applications are often run. 

The correct answer is Kalology.

Key Points

• The study of human beauty is called Kalology.
  • Kalology is the study of beauty and the ways in which beauty influences society.
  • This study is focused primarily on human attractiveness, rather than the broader field of aesthetics, and was popularized during the 19th century when philosophers attempted to codify beauty and create a uniform system for evaluating it.
  • A scale was even proposed, probably jokingly, which rated beauty in terms of the theoretical beauty of Helen of Troy, who allegedly had a face to launch 1,000 ships.

Additional Information

CONCEPT:

Force:

• The interaction which after applying on a body changes or try to changes the state of rest or state of motion is called force.
• It is denoted by F. The SI unit of force is Newton (N).

Force (F) = Mass (m) × acceleration (a)

• If more than one force is acting on a body, then the effect on the body is due to the net force.
• A stationary object on which no force is acting remains stationary.
• An object in motion continues to move with the same speed and direction when no force is acting on the object. This is Newton’s first law of motion. 

​CALCULATION:

Given:

Force = 20 N

Acceleration (a) = 2 m/s2

⇒ Force (F) = m a 

⇒ m = F/a = 20/2 = 10 kg.

So, option 4^th is correct.

Just as Needle is a part/component of the Clock, similarly Blade is a part/component of Fan.

Thus the related word pair is Fan : Blade.