Which formula is used to calculate the maximum flood discharge for a hilly catchment?
Correct answer A. Nawab Jung Bahadur Ali formula
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Agriculture MCQs
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How many main forms of DNA are recognised?
Correct answer B. 3
What is a dam that resists overturning by water pressure and uplift through its own weight called?
Correct answer C. Gravity dam
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What is the physical nature of protoplasm?
Correct answer A. Crystallo-colloidal solution
What is the height between the top of an embankment and the normal water level in a canal, dam or reservoir, allowing small waves to splash without overflowing, called?
Correct answer A. Free board
What is the minimum moisture content at which a drop of water placed on a smooth soil surface is not absorbed immediately?
Correct answer B. Soil moisture content
What is the main function of the centromere?
Correct answer A. Chromosome movement
What are the lines joining points of equal water head and pressure in soil beneath a retaining structure called?
Correct answer C. Equipotential lines
In which stage of meiosis do homologous chromosomes separate from each other?
Correct answer C. Anaphase I
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Which law states that the discharge of subsoil water is directly proportional to the head loss and the area of the soil sample, and inversely proportional to its length?
Correct answer B. Darcy's law
How many kinds of nitrogenous bases are found in RNA?
Correct answer D. Four
What is cultivation on small level steps cut into steep land called?
Correct answer C. Terrace farming
Which of the following is not found in DNA?
Correct answer C. Uracil
On a contour map, what is the line set out on the ground at a constant slope between certain points called?
Correct answer D. Contour gradient
What type of sugar does RNA contain?
Correct answer C. 5-carbon sugar
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What is an engineer engaged by a client to design hydraulic structures such as a dam, barrage or regulator called?
Correct answer B. Consulting Engineer
Which of the following does not contain RNA?
Correct answer A. Plasmalemma
In which crop is self-incompatibility used to produce hybrid seed?
Correct answer A. Cabbage
When does sliding failure occur in a solid gravity dam?
Correct answer C. Shear friction factor is less than 1.5
In which case are genotypic and phenotypic ratios identical?
Correct answer A. Incomplete dominance