IISER IAT 2019 question paper
60 questions · 240 marks · 180 minutes · +4 per correct answer, -1 per wrong one
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Biology
15 questions
- 1Which of the following produces a dikaryotic phase in Basidiomycetes?
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- 2In the standard nomenclature used for depicting floral formula, which type of flower is represented by ?
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- 3Which one of the following statements is TRUE?
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- 4Match the entries in column I and column II. Which one of the following choices is correct?
Column I Column II (a) Haem (1) Cofactor (b) NAD (2) Vitamin (c) Zinc (3) Coenzyme (d) Niacin (4) Prosthetic group Tap an option to check your answer.
- 5Which one of the following helps in bacterial motility?
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- 6During light reaction in chloroplasts of tobacco plants, where is the proton gradient generated?
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- 7Which of the following will NOT be triggered by the release of acetyl choline in the synapse at the neuromuscular junction during muscle contraction?
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- 8The diagram below shows a typical ECG. If the AV node is not functional, which of the following options correctly represents the changes seen in the ECG?
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- 9Listed below are different plant reproductive strategies. I. Parthenocarpy II. Syngamy III. Apomixis IV. Polyembryony Which of them can give rise to a clonal progeny having the same genotype as that of the mother plant?
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- 10The diagram below represents the pedigree of a certain genetic disease (affected individuals are shaded). What is the mode of inheritance of the gene responsible for this disease?
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- 11An E. coli whose DNA is fully labeled by is grown in a medium containing . What will be the percentage of hybrid () and light () DNA molecules at the end of 80 minutes (assume that doubling time of E. coli is 20 minutes)?
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- 12The following plots represent the body size distributions of a fruit fly population. Dashed lines represent the ancestral distributions and continuous lines represent the distributions after a few generations. If the larger individuals have better survival as well as higher reproductive rates, which diagram below best represents the expected change in the distribution of body size (X-axis represents body size while Y-axis represents frequency)?
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- 13What are the types of immunity acquired by i) transfer of antibodies to the foetus via the placenta and ii) vaccination of an infant?
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- 14Which among the following correctly represents the sequence of events for a normal polymerase chain reaction?
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- 15Loss of biodiversity occurs due to the growth of carrot grass (Parthenium sp.). This is an example of?
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Chemistry
15 questions
- 16What are the correct orders of bond lengths and bond dissociation enthalpies for and ? (where = F or Cl)
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- 17Which is the appropriate combination of spin configuration and colour for the anionic complex (L is a monodentate and monoanionic ligand)?
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- 18Which of the following combination of elements forms interstitial hydrides?
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- 19How many geometrical isomers are possible for the square planar complex (py = pyridine)?
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- 20A molecular adduct is formed between and . Which of the following values describe the coordination number (CN), valency (V) and oxidation state (OS) of B atom in this adduct?
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- 21While making paneer (cottage cheese) from milk by adding dilute acetic acid, the milk proteins undergo
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- 22What is the final major product of the following reaction?
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- 23Identify the final major product in the following reaction sequence.
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- 24Identify the compound [X] in the following reaction.
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- 25Which one among the following compounds is aromatic?
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- 26Using the Arrhenius equation, find out the value of at ?
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- 27Which one of the following is NOT an example of heterogeneous equilibrium?
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- 28At 60 C, 50% of (g) is dissociated to (g). What is the standard Gibbs free energy change at 60 C and 1 atm pressure for this process? (R = )
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- 29For a cell , for the half cells are given as: V, V at 25 C. What is the value of , where is the equilibrium constant for the reaction ? Given, 1 F = 96485 C.
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- 30Match the following:
i) Ge doped with In 1. n-type semiconductor ii) Si doped with N 2. Schottky defect iii) ZnS 3. p-type semiconductor iv) CsCl 4. Frenkel defect Tap an option to check your answer.
Mathematics
15 questions
- 31Let be the roots of the equation , for . Then, the sum equals to
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- 32How many solutions does the equation have in the interval ?
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- 33Let be a matrix with real entries. Consider the sets Suppose . Then, which one of the following statements is necessarily true?
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- 34Consider 5 straight lines in a plane such that no two of them are parallel and no three of them intersect at a point. Then, the number of disjoint regions into which the plane is divided by these lines equals to
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- 35Consider the circle that passes through the points and having the smallest area. Then, the equation of the tangent to the circle at is
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- 36Let be a continuous function. Consider the region For which one of the following functions , the area of the region is the largest?
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- 37Let be a continuous function. Then, is surjective if
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- 38The limit
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- 39The sum of consecutive terms of an arithmetic progression consisting of integers is 161. Then, a possible value of is
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- 40Let be a non-zero even function such that Then, the value of the integral is
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- 41What is the mean deviation about the mean for the following data?
1 2 3 4 5 10 15 20 Tap an option to check your answer.
- 42Let be a non-empty set such that the total number of subsets of containing at most two elements is equal to 16. Then, the number of elements in equals to
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- 43Consider the parallelogram as shown in the figure, where , for some positive integer . Suppose the length of is , then the length of is
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- 44Let and denote the standard unit vectors in along the -axis, -axis and -axis, respectively. Consider the sets Then, the number of elements in is
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- 45What is the probability that 3 randomly chosen elements from the set satisfy ?
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Physics
15 questions
- 46A particle of mass is rotating in a circular orbit of radius under the action of gravity in the presence of another stationary particle of very large mass (). Consider that the gravitational potential energy is zero at infinite separation. If the total energy of the rotating particle is , then, which of the following expressions correctly represents the angular momentum of the particle?
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- 47A point electric charge is placed at a corner of a cube as shown in the figure. What is the electric flux passing through the shaded surface ABCD of the cube? ( is permittivity of free space)
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- 48Neutral gas molecules, each of mass , are at a temperature in a container at zero gravity. How does the average de Broglie wavelength of a molecule depend on ?
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- 49Consider a particle of unit mass being thrown with an initial velocity making an angle with the horizontal ground. What is the magnitude of the angular momentum of the particle about the point of projection at a time after its projection while it is in flight?
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- 50Consider two long thin conductors and each carrying current as shown in the figure. Considering to be fixed, which of the following statements is correct?
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- 51What is the average kinetic energy of molecules of an ideal gas leaking freely through an orifice of a container which has molecules at pressure in volume ?
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- 52Which of the following is an expression for energy in terms of the Planck's constant , the velocity of light and the Gravitational constant ?
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- 53A solid block on a frictionless surface is connected to two rigid supports on the left and right side by springs of spring constants and respectively as shown in the figure. The time spent by the block in a complete cycle of oscillation on the left and the right side of the equilibrium position are and , respectively. Which of the following is correct?
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- 54A capacitor with capacitance consists of two concentric spherical conductors. If the radii of the inner and the outer spherical conductors are halved, what is the new capacitance?
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- 55What is the time taken by the capacitor in the given circuit to charge to of its full capacity?
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- 56The allowed energy levels of electrons in a Hydrogen atom are given by eV. For electronic transition in Hydrogen atom, what is the maximum frequency of the emitted photon? ( Js; e = C)
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- 57Which of the following statements about the P-V diagram of an ideal gas of fixed number of particles is incorrect?
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- 58A cube, a cylinder (of height equal to its diameter) and a sphere, all solid, are made of a metal and are of identical mass. If all the three shapes having initial temperature are put in a large reservoir of water at . Which of the above three shapes cools the fastest?
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- 59An LED display consists of 100 pixels per . Consider that the diameter of the pupil of the eye is 5 mm and the average wavelength of the display is 575 nm. What is the nearest distance from the display one can be at, such that the display does not appear pixelated?
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- 60Two equal positive charges () are placed at the vertices and of an isosceles triangle of base and height , as shown in the adjacent figure. When a charge is placed at , it is found that at a point inside the triangle, the net electric field due to the three charges vanishes. If this point is at a height , then what is ?
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