GATE 2011 Life Science Question Paper

The question below consists of a pair of related words followed by four pairs of words. Select the pair that best expresses the relation in the original pair:

Gladiator: Arena

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

Under ethical guidelines recently adopted by the Indian Medical Association, human genes are to be manipulated only to correct diseases for ______ which treatments are unsatisfactory.

Choose the word from the options given below that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:

Frequency

Choose the most appropriate word from the options gIven below to complete the following sentence:

It was her view that the country’s problems had been by foreign technocrats, so that to invite them to come back would be counter-productive.

There are two candidates P and Q in an election. During the campaign, 40% of the voters promised to vote for P, and rest for Q. However, on the day of election 15% of the voters went back on their promise to vote for P and instead voted for Q. 25% of the voters went back on their promise to vote for Q and instead voted for P. Suppose, P lost by 2 votes, then what was the total number of voters?

The horse has played a little known but very important role in the field of medicine. Horses were injected with toxins of diseases until their blood built up immunities. Then a serum was made from their blood. Serums to fight with diphtheria and tetanus were developed this way.

It can be inferred from the passage, that horses were

The sum of n terms of the series 4+44+444+.... is

Given that f(y) = y / y, and q is any non-zero real number, the value of | f(q)-f (-q) | is

Three friends, R, Sand T shared toffee from a bowl. R took of the toffees, but returned four to the bowl. S took of what was left but returned three toffees to the bowl. T took half of the remainder but returned two back into the bowl. If the bowl had 17 toffees left, how many toffees were originally there in the bowl?

The fuel consumed by a motorcycle during a journey while traveling at various speeds is indicated in the graph below.



The distances covered during four laps of the journey are listed in the table below



From the given data, we can conclude that the fuel consumed per kilometre was least during the lap

Electrophile among the following is

Trouton’s rule is obeyed by

Which one of the following compounds is known as silanes?

The shape of is

The correct order of acidity is

Consider the following equilibrium



The formation of is favored by

A molecular electronic excited state has a life time of s, the uncertainty in measuring the frequency (Hz) of the electronic transition is approximately

According to the molecular orbital theory, bond order for species is

According to crystal field theory, the electronic configuration of in the ground state is

The ions with lowest and highest radii among are respectively,

Directions for next two common data for questions:

The solubility products of FeS, ZnS, CuS and HgS are respectively.

is passed through an aqueous solution containing all the four metal ions. The metal ion that precipitates first is

The concentration of , at which FeS begins to precipitate from the mixture having 0.1 M is

Directions for next two questions: Statement for Linked Answer Questions

Consider the reaction



The above reaction is an example of

If the concentration of KOH in the reaction mixture is doubled, the rate of the reaction will be