IISER IAT 2022 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 features of a plant cell listed in Column I with their corresponding examples in Column II.Choose the CORRECT combination from the options below.
Column I Column II i. Cell with cytoplasm and no nucleus p. Pollen grain ii. Cell lacking both cytoplasm and nucleus q. Synergid iii. Cell containing more than two nuclei r. Tracheid iv. Haploid cell produced by mitosis s. Tapetum t. Mature sieve tube u. Phloem companion cell Tap an option to check your answer.
- 2Shown below are some of the reactions that occur in the metabolic pathway leading to complete oxidation of glucose during aerobic respiration. i. Pyruvate Acetyl CoA ii. Dihydroxy acetone phosphate Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate iii. Oxaloacetate Citrate iv. Fumarate Malate Choose the CORRECT sequence of reactions during the complete oxidation of glucose.
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- 3In a given species of flowering plant, the colour of the seeds is exclusively determined by the colour of its seed coat. Seed coat colour in this species is governed by a nuclear gene with two alleles. The WHITE () allele is dominant over brown () allele. If a plant with brown seeds () is crossed as a female with pollen from a white seed () plant, what will be the seed colour and the genotype of the embryo in the resultant seeds obtained from this cross?
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- 4During the CoVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV2 virus mutated multiple times giving rise to many variants. What is the genetic material of the SARS-CoV2 virus?
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- 5Lymph is an important body fluid. Choose the INCORRECT statement about the lymph.
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- 6Interneurons play an important role in the execution of spinal cord-mediated reflex action. Where are these interneurons located?
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- 7Osmoreceptors are sensitive to changes in ionic concentrations and volumes of body fluids. Which among the following best describes the function of these osmoreceptors?
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- 8A single point mutation in gene 'X' results in breathing difficulty, hypertension as well as partial sterility. Which among the following phenomenon best explains the observed phenotypes?
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- 9In a cross between individuals of the genotypes PpQQRrSS and ppqqRrSS, what will be the expected number of progenies with the genotype ppQQRrSS in a population of 400 individuals, assuming independent assortment?
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- 10Organisms in which of the following phyla are triploblastic, acoelomate and have bilateral symmetry?
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- 11Consider the following biomes: Tropical Rainforest (); Tundra (); Desert () and Coastal zone (). Choose the most probable descending order of Net Primary Productivity of these biomes.
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- 12Nine percent of a population cannot taste a certain food item because of a recessive allele of the gene IAT. Assuming the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, what will be the frequency of dominant and recessive alleles, respectively?
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- 13As opposed to DNA replication within the cell, discontinuous synthesis of DNA does NOT occur in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Why?
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- 14Which of the following figures CORRECTLY represents the chemiosmotic hypothesis of ATP synthesis occuring in a mitochondrion in a cell? (Keys for the figure; IMS: Intermembrane space, IMM: Inner mitochondrial membrane, MM: Mitochondrial matrix, ETC: Electron transport chain)
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- 15Let 'X' be the perpendicular distance from the centromere of each chromosome to the equatorial plane of a human cell. Which of the following stages of the cell cycle is most likely to have the HIGHEST average value of 'X'?
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Chemistry
15 questions
- 16The products of the reaction between aqueous solutions of and are
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- 17For the colourless complex , where M is a transition metal, the CORRECT ground state -electron configuration of M is
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- 18Choose the correct statement about the structure of fullerene.
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- 19The first to fifth ionization energies (IE) of two p-block elements X and Y are given below.The number of valence electrons in X and Y respectively are
(eV) (eV) (eV) (eV) (eV) X 6.0 18.8 28.4 120.0 153.7 Y 8.2 16.3 33.5 45.1 166.7 Tap an option to check your answer.
- 20Which of the following expressions represents the hydrogen atom wave function shown in the figure below? ( is the distance of the electron from the nucleus and is a constant)
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- 21Which of the following molecules are aromatic? M: pyridine; N: pyridinium ion, ; O: pyrrole; P: pyrrole protonated on nitrogen, (the ring N carries two H and a positive charge)
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- 22Which of the following are aryl bromides? M: 5-bromocyclopenta-1,3-diene; N: bromobenzene, ; O: benzyl bromide, ; P: 4-bromophenol,
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- 23Benzamide is treated with and NaOH(aq) to form the product X, which is then reacted with and HCl(aq) at to form Y. Y is immediately treated with ethanol to give Z. What is Z?
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- 24In the following reaction sequence, the major products M, N, and O respectively are
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- 25The major product P of the following reaction is
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- 26An aqueous solution contains 1.0 M of and 0.001 M of ions at . and ions do not interact with each other. This solution is put in an electrolytic cell and the voltage is gradually increased till a current begins to flow through the cell. The voltage is maintained at this point and a deposit is observed on the cathode. What is the composition of the material deposited on the cathode? (Given: Atomic weight of X is 63 and Y is 200. , V, , V, is the standard reduction potential.)
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- 27For the reaction involving ideal gases, , which of the following plots is qualitatively correct? ( and are the equilibrium constants in terms of pressure and concentration respectively. is the absolute temperature.)
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- 28The van der Waals equation for a real gas is given by . What is the dimension of ?
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- 292 g of naphthoic acid (molecular weight = 172 g ) dissolved in 20 mL of benzene shows a freezing point depression of 2 K. For benzene, the freezing point depression constant, K kg and the density is 0.88 g . What is the magnitude of the van't Hoff factor?
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- 30Identify the correct order of the molecules with respect to the magnitude of their dipole moment:
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Mathematics
15 questions
- 31A randomly chosen card from a deck of 52 cards is given to be a black card (i.e. Spade or Club). What is the probability that it is either a face card (i.e. King, Queen or Jack) or a Spade?
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- 32Let be a complex root of the quadratic polynomial . The value ofis
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- 33Let be a polynomial. Suppose thatThen
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- 34Let be the set of all unit vectors in the -plane. Then the set has
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- 35A lab reports that the global average temperature in the year 2020 was and predicts that the global average temperature will increase at the rate of 1% per year. What will be the global average temperature in the year 2035?
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- 36Let be the set of all matrices with real entries and be the relationWhich of the following statements is true?
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- 37For a natural number , let be the curve in the -plane given by , where . Let denote the area of the region bounded between and . Then the largest value of is
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- 38Let be a continuous function on and be its antiderivative. If and , then is
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- 39Let be a nonzero real number and be a continuous function such that for all . Consider . Then has
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- 40Let be the matrixFor any natural number , the determinant of is
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- 41Consider the vectorsThe values of for which there is at least one nonzero vector perpendicular to the vectors and are
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- 42Consider the tangent lines to the circle at points and . If is the point of intersection of these two tangent lines, then is:
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- 43The function given by is
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- 44The value of the integralwhere is the greatest integer less than or equal to for any real number , is
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- 45For arbitrary constants , the differential equation representing the family of curves is
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Physics
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- 46A particle experiences an acceleration , where is the velocity of the particle and is a constant. If the distances traveled by the particle in the time intervals and are and , respectively, which of the following relations is true?
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- 47A point mass attached to a massless string is undergoing circular motion in a vertical plane. The length of the string is and the acceleration due to gravity is . If the minimum value of the tension in the string is , the maximum speed of this circular motion of the point mass is
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- 48An object is released from rest from the inner edge of a hemispherical bowl, and it falls under gravity. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the object and the bowl is . If the object covers an angular displacement with respect to the center of the hemisphere when it stops for the first time, which of the following expressions is correct?
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- 49As shown in the figure a block is resting on a frictionless floor and is attached to the free end of a spring. The right edge of the block in equilibrium is at a distance from the wall. When the spring is compressed by a distance and released, the time-period of the motion is . Similarly, when compressed by a distance and released, the time-period is . Considering elastic collision between the block and the wall, what is the value of the quantity ?
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- 50A liquid of density in a container weighs . A cubic block of side and density is pushed by a stick to completely submerge the block in the liquid without touching the bottom. If is the acceleration due to the gravity and liquid displaced by the stick is negligible, what is the new weight of the container as registered by the weighing machine below?
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- 51A monoatomic ideal gas at pressure and volume is first adiabatically compressed to volume and then is allowed to expand isothermally back to its original volume. What is the final pressure of the gas?
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- 52A uniform taut string with two point charges and attached to its ends passes over two massless pullies kept distance apart as shown in the figure. If is the fundamental frequency of the part of the string over pullies, which of the following statements is correct?
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- 53Two uniformly charged concentric thin spherical shells of radii and have charges and , respectively. How does the electrostatic potential vary with distance from the center of the shells?
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- 54Consider a very long cylinder of radius having a uniform positive charge density . A sphere of radius has been carved out (see figure), leaving no charge in that region. The distance radially outward to the cylinder, as measured from the center of the sphere is . At what value of will the electric field be maximum?
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- 55In the given circuit, the box B either contains a capacitor, or an inductor or a resistor. The current versus time plots for three cases (, , ) are shown in figures. The switch is closed at time . Which of the following is correct?
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- 56In the given circuit each of the resistors is of resistance and each of the capacitors has capacitance. What is the charge in the capacitor between the points B and F?
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- 57A thin lens made of material of refractive index forms the image at the position of a point object held at on the central axis of the lens, as is shown in the ray diagram below. Consider that the refractive index of the medium is and for the figure given. Where does the image form when ?
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- 58A conducting sphere of radius initially contains a uniform volume charge density . What is the electric flux through a spherical surface of radius centered at a point on the surface of the charged sphere (see figure) at a later time ? ( is the permittivity of free space.)
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- 59The figures in the options show the photocurrent of a photoelectric material versus the frequency of an incident light beam. The light beam can have three different intensities , , , with . Which of the options is correct?
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- 60Consider that in a fission of a single Plutonium () atom 207 MeV energy is released. Assuming all atoms of Plutonium undergo fission, which of the following options is the closest estimate of the amount of Plutonium required for a 20,000 units of TNT explosion? (1 unit of TNT J, 1 eV J)
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