Question Discussion & Solution

Thus, ‘SEDATE’ can be coded as:

The correct answer is Sikandar Lodhi.

• The Mosque of Moth was constructed during the reign of Sikandar Lodi.

Key Points

• Moth Ki Masjid was built in 1505 by Wazir Miya Bhoiya who was a Prime Minister at the Royal Courts of Sultan Sikandar Lodhi.
• Sikandar Lodhi (1489 AD-1517 AD):
  • Sikandar Lodhi was the son of Bahlol Lodhi who conquered Bihar and western Bengal.
  • Noblest of the three Lodhi rulers, real name was Nizam Khan (son of Bahalul Lodhi).
  • He conquered Bihar and Bengal in 1504 AD. He built a new city named Agra and made it his capital.
  • He shifted his capital from Delhi to Agra, a city founded by him.
  • He broke the sacred images of the Jwalamukhi Temple at Nagarkot and ordered the temples of Mathura to be destroyed.
  • He introduced the Gaz-i-Sikandari (Sikandar’s yard) of 32 digits for measuring cultivated fields.
  • He was a poet and wrote verses in Persian under the pet name Gularukh.
  • He repaired Qutub Minar. 

Additional Information

• Muhammad Tughlaq set up a new department of agriculture Diwani-
  Kohi.
• Alauddin is credited to have built many forts and the most important of them is Ali Fort.
  • He also constructed the Alai Darwaja, the entrance gate of Qutub Minar.
• Qutbuddin Aibak constructed two mosques, Quwwat-ul- Islam in Delhi and Adhai din ka Jhonpra in Ajmer.
  • He also began the construction of Qutub Minar.

S.I. Unit of Pressure is Pascal,

Similarly,

S.I. Unit of Current is Ampere.

The disease Kala-Azar is caused by the protozoan Leishmania donovani

Leishmania donovani: 

• It is a parasitic protozoan belonging to the class Mastigophora or flagellata.
• It is a human parasite that is dimorphic (i.e. shows two forms) & digenetic in nature
• It causes the disease Kala-azar or Dumdum fever by sand fly (phelobotomus)
• The disease is spread by the bite of infected sand-fly
• It can affect the Skin (Cutaneous Leishmaniasis), the mucous membrane of the mouth, throat, and nose (Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis), Liver, lymph nodes, spleen, and bone marrow (Visceral Leishmaniasis)
• Symptoms include: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis - Skin ulcers
• Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis - Ulcers in mouth, throat, and nose, Nosebleed, Difficulty in breathing.
• Visceral Leishmaniasis - Weakness, weight loss, loss of appetite, enlarged spleen, liver, lymph nodes, a decrease in the production of blood cells.

Diagram showing the two different forms of Leishmania donovani

• Direct memory access (DMA) is a feature of computer systems that allows certain hardware subsystems to access main system memory (RAM), independent of the central processing unit (CPU)
• Disk drive is a hardware subsystem