IISER IAT 2017 question paper
60 questions · 240 marks · 180 minutes · +4 per correct answer, -1 per wrong one
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Biology
15 questions
- 1Match the following features to the animals. Which is the correct combination? 1. Open circulatory system 2. Closed circulatory system 3. Earthworm 4. Malpighian tubules 5. Nephridia 6. Cockroach
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- 2Take two plants, keep plant A in very dry conditions and plant B in high humidity. Simultaneously, immerse the roots of both plants in water with a red dye. What would you observe?
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- 3A population of finch birds with medium sized beaks colonizes an island with plants producing medium and large sized seeds. After a disease wipes out all the plants with medium sized seeds, what is most likely to happen to the finches?
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- 4If the population of a city of 100 people increases at an intrinsic rate of 0.1, but the city only has access to food and housing for 200 people, what will the current growth rate of the population be?
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- 5Pick the INCORRECT statement regarding a mitochondrion,
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- 6Which of the following statements best describes the G0 stage of the cell cycle?
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- 7Erythroblastosis foetalis can be avoided by
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- 8During an oxidative phosphorylation the terminal electron acceptor is ______ (fill up the blank)
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- 9Immature lymphocytes are primarily found in which one of the following organs?
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- 10If an enzyme reaction follows the Michaelis Menten kinetics represented by the equation: where, is the initial reaction velocity, is the maximal reaction velocity, is the Michaelis constant and is the substrate concentration. Which of the following statements is correct?
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- 11Common cold is mostly caused by Rhinoviruses. Which of the following treatments will provide the best cure from this infectious agent?
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- 12In human females, when does oogenesis begin?
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- 13Which one of the following statements best defines properties of a compound epithelium?
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- 14Which one of the following pairs of genotype and phenotype ratios will be obtained in F2 generation for Snapdragon plants exhibiting incomplete dominance for red and white flower color traits?
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- 15Provided below are recognition sequences for restriction enzymes 1 (RE1), 2 (RE2) and 3 (RE3). Arrows indicate the positions where the enzymes digest on the two strands. Which of the following can the RE1 digested DNA ligate to?
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Chemistry
15 questions
- 16In which one of the following cases will the -hydrogen NOT be abstracted on treatment with one equivalent of base?
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- 17Arrange the following compounds in order of decreasing basicity. (i) 4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazole (ii) pyrrole (iii) imidazole (iv) pyridine
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- 18In the following reaction sequence, predict the structure of the final product Y.
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- 19For the following reaction, identify the carbonyl compound X that shows the highest reactivity. Imine product
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- 20dissolves in a solution containing ions to form . What would be the geometry of ?
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- 21How many nodes are there in the antibonding molecular orbital formed by two atomic orbitals?
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- 22Identify the major product in the following reaction 2-phenylcyclohexan-1-one ?
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- 23A complex of metal has the following electronic distribution in orbitals, The neutral M has a ground state electronic configuration of . Which of the following complexes is consistent with the electronic distribution of (as described above)?
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- 24Identify the complex that can exist as a pair of enantiomers.
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- 25Which of the following complexes is expected to be colored?
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- 26Density of 3M solution of NaCl is 1.25 . Calculate the volume of water required to make 1000 of this NaCl solution. [Consider the density of water as 1 ].
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- 27Electric current was passed through an aqueous solution of using two Pt electrodes. After some time, the blue color of the solution disappeared along with evolution of gas. Which of the following statements is correct regarding the resultant solution?
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- 28Reactant gives different products () in parallel first order reactions. Rate constant for the formation of any product is where . For the decay of , what is the overall rate constant in terms of ?
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- 29Consider a hypothetical case in which the charge of a proton is twice as that of an electron. Using this hypothetical case, how many protons (P), neutrons (N) and electrons (E) would a neutral atom contain?
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- 30The magnitude of reversible work done by an ideal gas in four different processes: isothermal expansion, adiabatic expansion, constant pressure expansion, and free expansion are , , , and respectively. Choose the right order of sequence for the magnitude of the work done. (Change in the volume is same for all the processes.)
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Mathematics
15 questions
- 31The number of solutions of the equation in the interval is
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- 32For , the number of onto functions from the set to the set is
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- 33Let be a differentiable function such that and for all . Which of the following is true?
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- 34The number of points of intersection of the curves and is
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- 35The coefficient of in is
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- 36The roots of the polynomial are in an arithmetic progression. Which of the following is a common difference of the progression?
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- 37Let be defined as The value of for which is continuous at 0 is
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- 38Let be a set with 3 elements. What is the probability of choosing an ordered pair of subsets of such that and are disjoint?
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- 39Consider the functions and satisfying The set lies on a
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- 40A function satisfying for all is
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- 41The function in the interval has a
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- 42Let be a polynomial with real coefficients such that . Which of the following statements is always true?
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- 43For a complex number , let . The value of is
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- 44Let be a matrix which has determinant 3 and satisfies the equation . The value of is
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- 45Consider the functions and The value of is
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Physics
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- 46One mole of an ideal gas is taken around the complete cycle as shown in the PV-diagram. Considering the universal gas constant R, the work done by the gas in one complete cycle is
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- 47A Copper wire of length , Young's modulus , and diameter is hung from the ceiling. An Aluminium wire of length , Young's modulus , and of same diameter is joined end-to-end at the free end of the Copper wire. If under the action of a load applied at the free end of the Aluminium wire the net elongation is , the applied load is
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- 48From the given plot of the decay rate R versus time of some radioactive nuclei, the half life of the nuclei in hours can be estimated to be
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- 49A particle of mass and velocity collides head-on with a stationary particle of mass . After collision the velocity of both particles is . The energy lost in the collision is
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- 50Particles of mass and initially sitting at the same position, start moving simultaneously at with velocities and , respectively. After a time the angular momentum of the particle of mass with respect to the particle of mass is
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- 51If the refractive index of the material of a prism is and its angle of minimum deviation is then the angle of the prism is
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- 52The current through the 36 resistor in the given circuit is
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- 53The dimension of , where is the resistance and is the capacitance, is the same as that of
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- 54In the given circuit, the input voltages at P and Q could be either 0 V or 10 V. Use the fact that a diode under forward bias is a short circuit, and under reverse bias is an open circuit. The truth table of the circuit will be that of
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- 55What should be the closest approximate radius of a celestial body twice as massive as the sun so that the escape speed from the celestial body is equal to the speed of light? (The mass of sun is Kg, speed of light is m/s, and universal gravitational constant N m/Kg.)
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- 56Two bar magnets A and B, and a non-magnetic bar C, all of same mass and dimensions, are dropped in an identical manner one by one through the center of a copper loop held horizontally (as shown in the figure). The times taken by the bars A, B, and C to reach the ground are , , and , respectively. Which of the following relations is correct?
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- 57A metal, whose temperature coefficient of resistivity is , is heated from 100 C to 1100 C. By what factor does the mobility of electrons in the metal change due to this change in temperature?
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- 58In the given circuit, what is the closest approximate frequency at which the ratio is ?
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- 59The transverse displacement at position and time in a string due to a travelling wave is given by cm, where is in centimeters and is in seconds. Which of the following statements is wrong?
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- 60An electron of mass and charge is projected with a speed making an angle with respect to the top electrode of a parallel plate capacitor as shown in the figure. Considering only the effect of the downward constant electric field on the electron's motion, which of the following statements is correct.
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