Direction: Consider the following pairs regarding ports and respective seas.

1. Murmansk - Barents Sea

2. St. Petersberg - Baltic Sea

3. Rostov - Japan Sea

4. Vladivostok - Black Sea

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

Which of the following countries are claiming territorial rights over Kurli Islands?

New species may be formed if:

(A) DNA undergoes a significant change in the germ cell.

(B) Chromosomes number change in the gamete.

(C) There is no change in genetic materials

How pressure groups exert influence on politics?

Which of the following is incorrectly matched?

Direction: Read Assertion and Reason and select correct option:

Assertion (A): All members of bee society are diploid except the drones.

Reason (R): Drones are produced parthenogenetically.

Direction: Consider the following statements regarding Quantum State Interferography.

1. It can help make such manipulations simpler so that several crucial operations in quantum technologies become less cumbersome.

2. A qubit is a 3-dimensional quantum system and requires usually 2 complex numbers to be determined towards state estimation.

3. The setup requires only two interferometers from which many interferograms can be obtained to reconstruct the state.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct.

Direction: Consider the following statements with reference to Ajanta caves.

1. Ajanta is the only surviving example of a painting of the first century BCE and the fifth century CE.

2. The Mahayana sect of Buddhism started the excavation of caves in Ajanta.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The countries with which Russia shares its land border does NOT include.

1. Poland

2. Sweden

3. Bulgaria

4. Latvia

​Select the correct answer using the codes below.

Direction: With reference to Lake Baikal, consider the following statements.

1. Lake Baikal is the oldest existing freshwater lake on Earth.

2. It is the world’s second-largest lake by volume.

3. It is the world’s longest lake.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?