Question Discussion & Solution

the correct answer is MS-DOS.

MS-DOS is not a GUI-based operating system

Key Points

• MS-DOS is a text-based operating system, meaning that a user works with a keyboard to input data and receives output in plain text. Later, MS-DOS often had programs using a mouse and graphics to make work more simple and quick.
• MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system derived from 86-DOS that was created for IBM-compatible computers.
• MS-DOS allows the user to navigate, open, and otherwise manipulate files on their computer from a command line instead of a GUI like Windows.

Important Points

• Some popular, modern graphical user interface examples include:
  • Microsoft Windows,
  • macOS, Ubuntu Unity,
  • GNOME Shell for desktop environments, and
  • Android,
  • Apple's iOS,
  • BlackBerry OS,
  • Windows 10 Mobile,
  • Palm OS-WebOS, and
  • Firefox OS for smartphones.

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• Graphical User Interface (GUI) 
  • The graphical user interface is used by the most commercially popular computer operating systems 
  • A Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows you to enter commands by pointing and clicking at objects that appear on the screen.
  • It consists of picture-like items (icons and arrows for example).
  • In most operating systems, the primary user interface is graphical.

When the question figure is merged with the figure in option 3, the complete pattern can be seen as:

Hence, the figure in option (3) is the correct answer.

The correct answer is 1878.

• Vernacular press act was passed in 1878.

Key Points

• The Vernacular Press Act, 1878 came to be known as the Gagging Act as it discriminated between the English and the Vernacular Press.
• Vernacular Press Act, in British India, the law enacted in 1878 to curtail the freedom of the Indian-language (i.e., non-English) press.
• Lord Lytton passed the Vernacular Press Act 1878.
•  He also passed the Arms Act 1878 that prohibited Indians from carrying weapons of any kind without licenses.

Additional Information

• Indian National Awakening was the prime motive of vernacular newspapers.
• The law was repealed in 1881 by Lytton’s successor, Lord Ripon.
• Provisions of the Vernacular Press Act, 1878 include :
  • The publisher had to deposit the security and in case of infringement of the provision of the act the security could be forfeited.
  • If the offence reoccurred, the press equipment could be seized.

The correct answer is about 70% water.

Important Points

• The Top Four Elements Found in the Human Body: oxygen (65%), carbon (18.5%), hydrogen (9.5%), nitrogen (3.2%).
• The other trace elements (less than 0.01%) are boron (B), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), fluorine (F), iodine (I), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), selenium (Se), silicon (Si), tin (Sn), vanadium (V), and zinc (Zn).
• The six major nutrients are carbohydrates (CHO), lipids (fats), proteins, vitamins, minerals, water.
• The functions of water in the human body:
  • Water carries nutrients and oxygen to all cells in the body.
  • Water is required for breathing.
  • Water regulates your body temperature.
  • Water protects and cushions vital organs.
  • Water cushions joints.
  • Water removes waste.

Key Points

• Calcium (Ca) is the most abundant mineral in the body and is essential for a number of vital functions.
  • Also helps muscles relax and contract, important in nerve functioning, blood clotting, blood pressure regulation, immune system health.
• Iron (Fe), Part of a molecule (haemoglobin) found in red blood cells that carries oxygen in the body, needed for energy metabolism.
• Iodine found in thyroid hormone, which helps regulate growth, development, and metabolism.
• Chromium works closely with insulin to regulate blood sugar (glucose) levels.

The input device is any hardware used by a human operator or other systems to communicate with a computer. 

Input Device: A piece of equipment/hardware that helps us enter data into a computer is called an input device. 

Examples of an Input device:

Keyboard, mouse, scanner, joystick, etc.

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