Previous Year Questions

TLS Online TPP Program

QUESTION ID:1

Which of the following statements with respect to the orientation of the nitrogenous bases to the pentose sugars, and the puckering of the sugar, is correct?

Anti, and 2’-endo in A form DNA

Anti, and 2’-endo in B form DNA

Syn, and 3’-endo in A form DNA

Syn, and 3’ -endo in B form DNA

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QUESTION ID:2

A dioecious plant has XX sexual genotype for female and XY for male. After double fertilization, what would be the genotype of the embryos and endosperms?

100% ovules will have XXX endosperm and XX embryo

100% ovules will have XXY endosperm and XY embryo

50% ovules will have XYY endosperm and XY embryo, while other 50% will have XXY endosperm and YY embryo

50% ovules will have XXX endosperm and XX embryo, while the other 50% will have XXY endosperm and XY embryo

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QUESTION ID:3

The amino acid substitution matrices in decreasing order of stringency for comparing protein sequences are

PAM250, PAM120, PAM100

PAM100, PAM120, PAM250

PAM250, PAM100, PAM120

PAM120, PAM250, PAM100

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QUESTION ID:4

The active site in the alpha/beta barrel structures is usually located

inside the barrel

at the amino side of the strands

at the carboxy side of the strands

at any arbitrary site

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QUESTION ID:5

Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence.

A person suffering from Alzheimer’s disease ......... short-term memory loss.

experienced

has experienced

is experiencing

experiences

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QUESTION ID:6

Choose the most appropriate word from the options given below to complete the following sentence.

____________ is the key to their happiness; they are satisfied with what they have.

Contentment

Ambition

Perseverance

Hunger

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QUESTION ID:7

Which of the following options is the closest in meaning to the sentence below?

“As a woman, I have no country.”

Women have no country.

Women are not citizens of any country.

Women’s solidarity knows no national boundaries.

Women of all countries have equal legal rights.

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QUESTION ID:8

In any given year, the probability of an earthquake greater than Magnitude 6 occurring in the Garhwal Himalayas is 0.04. The average time between successive occurrences of such earthquakes is ____ years

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QUESTION ID:9

The population of a new city is 5 million and is growing at 20% annually. How many years would it take to double at this growth rate?

3-4 years

4-5 years

5-6 years

6-7 years

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QUESTION ID:10

In a group of four children, Som is younger to Riaz. Shiv is elder to Ansu. Ansu is youngest in the group. Which of the following statements is/are required to find the eldest child in the group?

Statements

1. Shiv is younger to Riaz.

2. Shiv is elder to Som.

Statement 1by itself determines the eldest child.

Statement 2 by itself determines the eldest child.

Statements 1 and 2 are both required to determine the eldest child.

Statements 1 and 2 are not sufficient to determine the eldest child.

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QUESTION ID:11

Moving into a world of big data will require us to change our thinking about the merits of exactitude. To apply the conventional mindset of measurement to the digital, connected world of the twenty-first century is to miss a crucial point. As mentioned earlier, the obsession with exactness is an artefact of the information-deprived analog era. When data was sparse, every data point was critical, and thus great care was taken to avoid letting any point bias the analysis. From “BIG DATA” Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier

The main point of the paragraph is:

The twenty-first century is a digital world

Big data is obsessed with exactness

Exactitude is not critical in dealing with big data

Sparse data leads to a bias in the analysis

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QUESTION ID:12

The total exports and revenues from the exports of a country are given in the two pie charts below. The pie chart for exports shows the quantity of each item as a percentage of the total quantity of exports. The pie chart for the revenues shows the percentage of the total revenue generated through export of each item. The total quantity of exports of all the items is 5 lakh tonnes and the total revenues are 250 crore rupees. What is the ratio of the revenue generated through export of Item 1 per kilogram to the revenue generated through export of Item 4 per kilogram?

1:2

2:1

1:4

4:1

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QUESTION ID:13

X is 1 km northeast of Y. Y is 1 km southeast of Z. W is 1 km west of Z. P is 1 km south of W. Q is 1 km east of P. What is the distance between X and Q in km?

√2

√3

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QUESTION ID:14

10% of the population in a town is HIV^+. A new diagnostic kit for HIV detection is available; this kit correctly identifies HIV^+ individuals 95% of the time, and HIV− individuals 89% of the time. A particular patient is tested using this kit and is found to be positive. The probability that the individual is actually positive is _______

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