[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 1 October 2021 – INSIGHTSIAS

Solution: b)

Local Disaster:

State Government may use up to 10% of the funds available under SDRF for providing immediate relief to the victims of the natural disaster that are considered to be “Disaster” within the local contacts in the State and which is not included in the notified list of disaster of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) subject to the condition that the State Government has listed the State specific natural disaster and notified clear and transparent norms and guidelines for such disaster with the approval of the State authority i.e. State Executive Committee (SEC).

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Solution: d)

The key components of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission include a health ID for every citizen that will also work as their health account, to which personal health records can be linked and viewed with the help of a mobile application; a Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) and Healthcare Facilities Registries (HFR) that will act as a repository of all healthcare providers across both modern and traditional systems of medicine. 

Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission Sandbox, created as a part of the Mission, will act as a framework for technology and product testing that will help organizations, including private players, intending to be a part of National Digital Health Ecosystem become a Health Information Provider or Health Information User or efficiently link with building blocks of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.

This Mission will create interoperability within the digital health ecosystem.

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Solution: a)

India’s Mars Orbiter spacecraft has completed seven years in its orbit, well beyond its designed mission life of six months.

MOM is the maiden interplanetary mission of ISRO. Launched on November 5, 2013, the probe was successfully inserted into Martian orbit on September 24, 2014 in its first attempt.

MOM is primarily a technology demonstration venture. The main lessons learnt were in the field of design and realisation of systems and subsystems, launch for interplanetary mission, insertion into other planet’s orbit, operation of the spacecraft and scientific instruments around Mars orbit.

The spacecraft was launched by PSLV as GSLV was not in operational condition then.

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Solution: d)

Leveraging advancements in CRISPR-based genetic engineering, researchers have created a system that restrains populations of mosquitoes that infect millions each year with debilitating diseases.

Applications of CRISPR

• Using CRISPR for genome editing
• Using CRISPR libraries for screening
• CRISPR/Cas9-mediated chromatin immunoprecipitation
• Transcriptional activation and repression
• Epigenetic editing with CRISPR/Cas9
• Live imaging of DNA/mRNA
• Therapeutic Applications
• Enhancing crop production
• Fighting antimicrobial resistance

Gene editing could improve the production of biofuels by algae. Using CRISPR-Cas9, the strains of algae that produce twice as much fat can be created, which is then used to produce biodiesel.

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Solution: a)

Mrigthuni Glacier, one of the major glaciers of Uttarakhand’s Pindar river basin originates from the 22,490-foot Mrigthuni Peak.

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