Life Sciences
GATE XL format:nat PYQs
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Questions 131–140 of 244. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 20
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Dry air is fed into a tray dryer. The percentage relative humidity of the air leaving the dryer is 60% at 70°C and 101.35 kPa. If saturated vapour pressure of water at 70°C is 31.2 kPa, the humidity of the air leaving the dryer in kg water per kg dry air (round off to 2 decimal places) will be _____.
(Given : Molecular weight of water and air are 18.02 g mol⁻¹ and 28.97 g mol⁻¹ respectively)
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In naphthalene, the value of the integer “n” according to Hückel’s rule of aromaticity is _____.
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The azimuthal quantum number (
) of an electron in the
orbital of a copper atom (atomic number: 29) is _____.Log in to check the answer
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The standard enthalpy of reaction (in kJ mol
) for obtaining three moles of H
(g) from atomic hydrogen in gas phase is _____. (Given: Standard enthalpy of formation of atomic hydrogen in gas phase is 218 kJ mol
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A molecule in solution crystallizes into two different crystal forms with rate constants of 0.02 s
and 0.13 s
. If the crystallization is assumed to be under kinetic control, then the half-life (in seconds, rounded off to one decimal place) of the molecule is _________.Log in to check the answer
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The standard potential (
) for a cell reaction given below is +0.7 V. The standard reaction free energy (
) for this cell is ______ kJ mol
(correct up to two decimal places). (Given: Faraday constant, F = 96500 C mol
)Au
(aq) + 3 Ag (s)
Au (s) + 3 Ag
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The activation energy (
) estimated for a reaction from the Arrhenius equation is 21 kJ mol
. If the frequency factor is assumed to be independent of temperature, then the ratio of the rate constants determined at 298 K and 260 K is ________ (rounded off to two decimal places). (Given: Gas constant, R = 8.315 J K
mol
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At a given pressure, a substance is heated from 2000 K to 2600 K. If the entropy of the substance is 60 J K
mol
, and is assumed to be constant over the given temperature range, then the change in the chemical potential (in kJ mol
) of the substance is ____________.Log in to check the answer
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When one glucose unit from glycogen gets converted to lactate in the muscle, the net number of ATP molecules produced is ________.
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Considering that the three pK
s of histidine are pK
=1.8, pK
=9.2 and pK
=6.0, its isoelectric point will be ___________ (rounded off to one decimal place).Log in to check the answer
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