4th August MCQ

1. Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an infectious disease in cattle caused by a virus of the family Poxviridae, also known as Neethling virus.

2. The disease is characterized by fever, enlarged superficial lymph nodes and multiple nodules on the skin and mucous membranes.

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1. Between 1993-94 and 2018-19, agriculture’s share in India’s workforce has reduced by around 50 percent.
2. Between 1993-94 and 2020-21 the percentage of India’s workforce in agriculture has been reducing steadily.
3. Structural transformation would involve the transfer of labour from farming to sectors particularly manufacturing and modern services where productivity, value-addition and average incomes are higher.

1. It is a large, double-stranded DNA virus in the Asfarviridae family.

2. The virus causes a hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in domestic pigs; some isolates can cause death of animals as quickly as a week after infection.

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1. India does not have formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
2. While following the One-China policy, India has established India-Taipei Association (ITA) in Taipei for diplomatic engagements.
3. Taiwan Straitis a narrow body of water that separates the Taiwan from the mainland China.

1. It is an AI-based protein structure prediction tool.

2. It used processes based on “training, learning, retraining and relearning” to predict the structures of the entire 214 million unique protein sequences deposited in the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) database.

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