GENETIC DEFECTS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Many people are born with and suffer from diseases such as sickle cell anaemia, haemophilia, severe combined immuno deficiency (SCID), and colour blindness. Such diseases are caused…
Gene Therapy- Definition, Types and Limitations
WHAT IS GENE THERAPY? Gene Therapy may be defined as a technique in which a patient (sufferer) is given healthy genes to replace the defective ones inherited…
Fish and Health Benefits
Fisheries and Aquaculture have been considered as an important means of poverty elevation and food security besides promoting health and well being. Fish continue to be one…
DNA barcoding
What is DNA barcoding? DNA barcoding is the identification of a species by the characteristic sequence of a standard short section of DNA in its genome. How…
Green Hydrogen and its uses
Green hydrogen is made by using clean electricity from surplus renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind power, to electrolyse water. Thus, green hydrogen is any…
Satellite Navigation System
A satellite navigation or satnav system is a system that uses satellites to provide autonomous geopositioning. A satellite navigation system with global coverage is termed global navigation…
Progress made by India in access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy
QUES. Access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy is the sine qua non to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Comment on the progress made in India…
Digital signature – Authentication, salient built in features and benefits
QUES . What is digital signature? What does its authentication mean? Give various salient built in features of a digital signature. UPSC 2013 GS MAINS PAPER III…
Cloud hosting of server vis-a-vis in-house machine-based hosting
Ques . Discuss the advantage and security implications of cloud hosting of server vis-a-vis in-house machine-based hosting for government businesses. UPSC 2015 GS MAINS PAPER III HINTS:…
CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology
“CRISPR” (pronounced “crisper”) stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which are the hallmark of a bacterial defense system that forms the basis for CRISPR-Cas9 genome…