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International Energy Agency:
-- Under OECD framework
-- L-1974 after oil crisis (1973)
-- Hq. Paris, France
-- 31 members (India is not full-fledged member but associate member)
-- Eligibility: Country should be an OECD Member along with a capacity to hold a crude reserve for 90 days of the previous year's imports
-- Report: World Energy Outlook

International Renewable Energy Agency:
-- Inter governmental
-- L- 2009
-- Hq. Abu Dhabi
-- 169 member (India - member)
-- Report: World Energy Transition Outlook

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With reference to the recent developments in science, which one of the following statements is not correct?

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Functional chromosome can be created by joining segments of DNA taken from cells of different specie

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Pieces of artificial functional DNA can be created in laboratories.

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Piece of DNA taken out from animal cell can be made to replicate outside a living cell in Laboratory

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Cells taken out from plants& animals can be made to undergo cell division in laboratory petri dishes

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The main reason that the earth experiences highest temperatures in the subtropics in the northern hemisphere rather than at the equator is:

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a) Subtropical areas have longer day hours in the summer than the equatorial.

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b) Subtropical areas have an enhanced “green house effect” compared to equatorial areas.

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c) Subtropical areas tend to have less cloud cover than equatorial areas.

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d) Subtropical areas are nearer to the oceanic areas than the equatorial locations.

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1) Temperature increases with increasing altitude
2) A long winter night with clear skies is an ideal situation
3) It is a short term phenomenon and is common all over the globe except at the poles. CORRECT about Temperature Inversion?

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1) It causes instability in the lower layers of the atmosphere
2) This inversion commonly lasts for a few hours until the Sun comes up.
CORRECT about Surface inversion of temperature?

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Identify incorrect pair.

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