Answer: D) Lt. Gen. Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastava Explanation: Lt. Gen. Sanjeev Kumar Shrivastava took over as the 25th Director General of the Border Roads (DGBR). He has replaced Lt. Gen. Suresh Sharma. Prior to it, he was holding the appointment of Director General Combat Engineers at Integrated Headquarters of Ministry of Defence(Army).

Absence of cell division is the process that never comes in interphase.

Answer: B) 30 Explanation: 332 + 3 = 12552 + 5 = 30

Answer: B) India Explanation: India was re-elected as member of executive board of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Executive board is UNESCO's top decision-making body. The election was held at 39th session of General Conference of UNESCO in Paris, France.    UNESCO is UN association that helps safeguard historical and cultural sites around the world. It is special multi-nation organization, framed in 1945 and situated in France. It promotes literacy and sex education as well as improving gender equality in countries around world. The General Conference determines policies and main lines of work of organisation. Its duty is to set programmes and budget of UNESCO. It also elects members of executive board and appoints, every four years, director-general.

Answer: A) 19th Augusrt Explanation:

Answer: B) plant bending toward the light Explanation: Phototropism is the ability of a photosynthesizing organism, to grow directionally in response to a light source. It is very common in plants, but can also occur in other organisms such as fungi. Example :: Sunflower

Answer: A) quality, quantity and duration of light Explanation: Plants and animals are separated by about 1.5 billion years of evolutionary history. They have evolved their multicellular organization independently but using the same initial toolkit — the set of genes inherited from their common unicellular eucaryotic ancestor. Two basic peculiarities of plants are: First, they get their energy from sunlight, not by ingesting other organisms. This dictates a body plan different from that of animals. Second, their cells are encased in semirigid cell walls and cemented together, preventing them from moving as animal cells do. This dictates a different set of mechanisms for shaping the body and different developmental processes to cope with a changeable environment. Because they cannot match themselves to their environment by moving from place to place, plants adapt instead by altering the course of their development. Their strategy is opportunistic. A given type of organ—a leaf, a flower, or a root, say—can be produced from the fertilized egg by many different paths according to environmental cues.   Hence, Plant development is influenced by quality, quantity and duration of light.

Answer: D) Snehlata Shrivastava Explanation: Snehlata Shrivastava, appointed as the first woman Secretary General of the Lok Sabha. The appointment was made by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. Ms. Shrivastava will replace Anoop Mishra, who retired on November 30, 2017.  Ms. Shrivastava, a senior civil servant with 35 years of rich and varied administrative experience is a 1982 batch IAS officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre. Rama Devi holds the distinction of the being the first woman secretary general of the Rajya Sabha.