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The sea breathes in and out upon a shore.

Outdoor laborateries.

Digger: it is an instrument to dig earth to take out root or tuber part of plant from soil.

• The Central National Herbarium Kolkata, CNH
• The Herbarium of National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow

The answer is Shrinagar.

The answer is (c) Jivak Komar Britiya

Modern concept of Botanical garden came in existence 150 years back and credit to make this Botanical garden useful goes to Henery Shaw who established Missouri Botanical Garden in Same Louis, USA (1859).

Modern concept of Botanical garden came in existence 150 years back and credit to make this Botanical garden useful goes to Henery Shaw who established Missouri Botanical Garden in Same Louis, USA (1859).

The narrator was in the middle of the ocean after a shipwreck. The ship plunged into an abyss and disappeared

Archaraya Jagdish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden.

In this expression, the poet is referring to the voice and the noise of the wind which was blowing very softly as if held in awe and suspense of the moment. If it blew hard, it should ruffle the leaves and disturb the plan and scheme of the cruel tiger.

इस अभिव्यक्ति में कवि हवा की आवाज और शोर की ओर संकेत कर रहा है जो बहुत ही आराम से ऐसे बह रही थी जैसे उस क्षण के भय और अनिश्चितता में जकड़ी हो। यदि वह तेज बही तो वह पत्तियों को बिखरा देगी और क्रूर चीते की योजना और षड्यन्त्र को भंग कर देगी।

Other sailors were also having the same predicament as the narrator. It was reassuring to him.

Objectives of Herbarium :

• Herbarium is used for identification of plants.
• Specimen alongwith description on herbarium sheet constitutes a storehouse or repository of knowledge for future reference and research work in the field of plants. Herbarium gives necessary information and plant specimen for better understanding.
• Study of plant is not interesting and easy when studied by diagrams, photographs and description but herbarium makes it interesting and learning oriented.
• Some time herbarium is helpful to compare and study- plants from an area if their specimens are systematically arranged in the form of herbarium sheet.
• Useful to keep specimens of newly described taxa.
• Helpful to study flora of different places.
• Ecology of different places can be understood by herbarium.
• Helpful to identify plants.

• The process to keep properly dried, pressed and identified plant specimens in sequential, scientific and approved classification method is called Filing.
• All specimen of a species are placed in thin paper folds (specimen covers) which are kept together in thicker paper folders genus covers, and finally they are incorporated into the herbarium cupboards in their proper position according to a well known system of classification

• Herbarium is used for identification of plants.
• Specimen along with description on herbarium sheet constitutes a storehouse or repository of knowledge for future reference and research work in the field of plants. Herbarium gives necessary information and plant specimen for better understanding.
• Study of plant is not interesting and easy w hen studied by diagrams, photographs and description but herbarium makes it interesting and learning oriented.

Correct option is (b) Second order change

Correct option is (a) Systems 1 management

The present ownership of SIDBI is held by 34 public sector institutes, through its 15 regional offices and 84 branches.

The road of the rule means that in order that the liberties of all may be preserved, the liberty’ of everyone must be curtailed.

The individual liberty must be curtailed in order that everyone may enjoy a social order which makes the individual liberty a reality.

A reasonable person would understand that if the traffic police doesn’t interfere with the liberty of individuals at signal points, there will be a huge traffic jam and none will be able to drive on the road.

We are more conscious of the imperfections of others than of our own.

Liberty is an accommodation of interests. It is a social contract rather than a personal affair,

When one submits to a curtailment of private liberty, one can enjoy a social order. Such a social order makes one’s liberty a reality.

We are liable to forget that there are a lot of people in the world and we have to accommodate our liberties to their liberties.

Liberty is not a personal affair but a social contract. It is an accommodation of interests.

The poem ‘The Farmer’s Wife’ by the Volga begins with the lamentation of the farmer’s wife, who laments over the death of her husband. However, in her lamentation, it is clear that more than mourning over the death of her husband, she expresses her grief over the hopelessness of the situation. Her husband has committed suicide because he was unable to face the creditors. However, his act is not considered an irresponsible act. In fact, people may even think of his act as the virtuous act of a selfrespecting man who did not want to bend his head and stretch his arm. But the woman points out that, by committing suicide he has left the woman behind, to bend her head and stretch her hand as she has to continue to live at least for the sake of her four children.

The woman ironically adds that bending the head and stretching the arm pose no problem to her as she has always done that. She has always done that as women are always pushed to the low level. But she cannot understand how her husband, who had always asserted his right over her, simply by virtue of being a man, could drink poison and get released from the worldly bonds in a cowardly way. The woman, in her questioning of his act, implies that his irresponsible act has poisoned her very existence. She suggests that when living was worse than death, embracing death was a selfish and even cruel act on the part of the man as he had no thought for the family that he left behind.

The woman is shocked that the man, who could kick and bully her with the claim of superiority over her, could give her the final death blow by committing suicide. At this point, the woman compares the hardship she suffered in the family over the years and the problem of the cotton crop being destroyed that year. She points out that the pain she had undergone was for a longer period of time, but she had withstood it. The problem of the cotton crop, as she says, ‘is but yesterday’s.’ The juxtaposition of the two problems is done to show that men buckle under pressure more easily than women. Men are self-centred too and when they take recourse to escapism, they don’t give any thought to what would happen to their family. They are not worried over the future of their children either. Hence it becomes double jeopardy for the woman.

On the one hand, she has to come to terms with the death of her husband, on the other she has to worry over the future of her children. Here also the poet draws an analogy between the natural crop and the children. The woman points out that when the crop failed, her husband committed suicide; if she were to do the same thing, her children wouldn’t have a bright future. She adds that she is not prepared to allow the harvest of her womb to perish. She cannot leave her children helpless like the wormeaten cotton pods in the wind. The woman rightly points out that meeting one’s end is over in a moment. It’s not a long struggle. But the struggle in life, for life to sustain and continue, is a long struggle, full of perils. For this, one needs a brave heart.

Only the one with a firm heart will analyse the difficult situation with questions like, ‘What of this?’ or ‘Why is this?’ When a person asks, ‘What of this?’, he probably wonders about what would be the final outcome of all the struggle. When he asks, ‘Why is this?’, he definitely has a sense of self-pity. Yet he should never lose his reasoning ability and the determination to fight his misfortune. Otherwise, his children would become orphans. That is why the farmer’s wife asserts that she would continue to live to teach her children how to live.

She wants to instil in her children the fighting spirit which her husband lacked. That is why she says that she would continue to be alive to teach her children to fight with a clenched fist for not only the basic need of food but also more important things, attaining which might be nothing less than a battle. For this, she pledges to embrace life and not death, though life would present a long and painful struggle.

Thus the poem is a tribute paid to the dauntless spirit of the woman and a plea to the weak-hearted not to lose hope.

Whenever the farmer was drunk he would kick her using abusive language.

In this poem, ‘worm-eaten cotton pods’ are compared to the farmer’s malnourished children.

To embrace life.

The woman points out that meeting one’s end is over in a moment. It’s not a long struggle. But the struggle in life, for life to sustain and continue, is a long struggle, full of perils. For this, one needs a brave heart. Only the one with a firm heart will analyse the difficult situation. Yet he should never lose his reasoning ability and the determination to fight his misfortune. Otherwise, his children would become orphans. That is why the farmer’s wife asserts that she would continue to live, to teach her children how to live. She wants to instil in her children the fighting spirit which her husband lacked. That is why she says that she would continue to be alive to teach her children to fight with a clenched fist for not only the basic need of food but also more important things, attaining which might be nothing less than a battle. For this, she pledges to embrace life and not death, though life would present a long and painful struggle.

The woman was ill-treated by her husband in his drunken state. He had abused her both physically and verbally when he was alive. But all this was accepted by the woman because society had made her believe that a man had the right to rule over his wife and even abuse her when displeased as he was the master who went out into the world while she was to deal with family problems. But this idea of the man gets beaten when the farmer is unable to withstand the pressure and commits suicide. Now, the woman has to shoulder the responsibility of both work and home. Naturally, the woman has all negative memories of the man who did no justice to her when alive and did a greater injustice to her by embracing death. The poet wants to point out that while all of us sympathise with the man who was driven to commit suicide, the plight of the woman who has to fend for herself is worse than that of the man who is dead and thereby free of all problems.

‘ The farmer committed suicide, instead of embracing life and facing the struggles of life bravely.

Being a man, the farmer was not used to being subservient to others. He could not bear the idea of bending his head or stretching his hand in front of the creditors. But, being a woman, the farmer’s wife was used to obedience and harsh treatment and could pull on even when insulted and deprived. Moreover, being a woman, her motherly instinct made it impossible for her to leave her children behind at the mercy of fate. Though the prospect of bringing up four children in the face of stark poverty is daunting, she faces the challenge and doesn’t take recourse to the easier escape route of suicide. Thus we see that the difference between the man and the woman lies in the way men and women are generally treated in society and the way in which men treat women at home. But the saving grace is the fact that the injustice meted out to women in society and at home makes them strong and gives them the courage to ’embrace life and struggle for life’.

(f)  all of the above.

The poem ‘The Farmer’s Wife’ by the Volga begins with the lamentation of the farmer’s wife, who laments over the death of her husband. However, in her lamentation, it is clear that more than mourning over the death of her husband, she expresses her grief over the hopelessness of the situation. Her husband has committed suicide because he was unable to face the creditors. However, his act is not considered an irresponsible act. In fact, people may even think of his act as the virtuous act of a selfrespecting man who did not want to bend his head and stretch his arm. But the woman points out that, by committing suicide he has left the woman behind, to bend her head and stretch her hand as she has to continue to live at least for the sake of her four children.

The woman ironically adds that bending the head and stretching the arm pose no problem to her as she has always done that. She has always done that as women are always pushed to the low level. But she cannot understand how her husband, who had always asserted his right over her, simply by virtue of being a man, could drink poison and get released from the worldly bonds in a cowardly way. The woman, in her questioning of his act, implies that his irresponsible act has poisoned her very existence. She suggests that when living was worse than death, embracing death was a selfish and even cruel act on the part of the man as he had no thought for the family that he left behind.

The woman is shocked that the man, who could kick and bully her with the claim of superiority over her, could give her the final death blow by committing suicide. At this point, the woman compares the hardship she suffered in the family over the years and the problem of the cotton crop being destroyed that year. She points out that the pain she had undergone was for a longer period of time, but she had withstood it. The problem of the cotton crop, as she says, ‘is but yesterday’s.’ The juxtaposition of the two problems is done to show that men buckle under pressure more easily than women. Men are self-centred too and when they take recourse to escapism, they don’t give any thought to what would happen to their family. They are not worried over the future of their children either. Hence it becomes double jeopardy for the woman.

On the one hand, she has to come to terms with the death of her husband, on the other she has to worry over the future of her children. Here also the poet draws an analogy between the natural crop and the children. The woman points out that when the crop failed, her husband committed suicide; if she were to do the same thing, her children wouldn’t have a bright future. She adds that she is not prepared to allow the harvest of her womb to perish. She cannot leave her children helpless like the wormeaten cotton pods in the wind. The woman rightly points out that meeting one’s end is over in a moment. It’s not a long struggle. But the struggle in life, for life to sustain and continue, is a long struggle, full of perils. For this, one needs a brave heart.

Only the one with a firm heart will analyse the difficult situation with questions like, ‘What of this?’ or ‘Why is this?’ When a person asks, ‘What of this?’, he probably wonders about what would be the final outcome of all the struggle. When he asks, ‘Why is this?’, he definitely has a sense of self-pity. Yet he should never lose his reasoning ability and the determination to fight his misfortune. Otherwise, his children would become orphans. That is why the farmer’s wife asserts that she would continue to live to teach her children how to live.

She wants to instil in her children the fighting spirit which her husband lacked. That is why she says that she would continue to be alive to teach her children to fight with a clenched fist for not only the basic need of food but also more important things, attaining which might be nothing less than a battle. For this, she pledges to embrace life and not death, though life would present a long and painful struggle.

Thus the poem is a tribute paid to the dauntless spirit of the woman and a plea to the weak-hearted not to lose hope.Thus the poem is a tribute paid to the dauntless spirit of the woman and a plea to the weak-hearted not to lose hope.

The sphinx has the head of a man and the body of a lion. Emperor Khaphre got it carved. It is 240 feet long and 66 feet high and carved out of a single stone. It is located in front of the Pyramid of Giza.

1. False

2. False

Funds Flow Statement highlights Sources and applications of funds.

1. True

2. True

Funds Flow Statement is based on financial statements of Two consecutive years.

   Fund Flow Statement

Workings: 

(i) Statement of changes in working capital

Net Increase in Working Capital: Rs. 47,000

(ii) Calculation of Funds From Operations 

Profit and Loss Adjustment Account

(c) Non-current liability

(d) None of the above

(c) Both horizontally and vertically

(a) Be added back

Partner’s Loan A/c Dr

To Bank A/c

Correct option is (C) Real

Dissolution of a partnership firm may take place without the intervention of court or by the order of a court, in any of the ways specified later in this section. It may be noted that dissolution of the firm necessarily brings in dissolution of the partnership. Dissolution of a firm takes place in any of the following ways:

1. Dissolution by Agreement: A firm is dissolved : 

(a) with the consent of all the partners or 

(b) in accordance with a contract between the partners. 

2. Compulsory Dissolution: A firm is dissolved compulsorily in the following cases: 

(a) when all the partners or all but one partner, become insolvent, rendering them incompetent to sign a contract; 

(b) when the business of the firm becomes illegal; or 

(c) when some event has taken place which makes it unlawful for the partners to carry on the business of the firm in partnership, e.g., when a partner who is a citizen of a countiy becomes an alien enemy because of the declaration of war with his countiy and India.

3. On the happening of certain contingencies: Subject to contract between the partners, a firm is dissolved : 

(a) if constituted for a fixed term, by the expiry of that term; 

(b) if constituted to carry out one or more ventures, by the completion thereof; (c) by the death of a partner; 

(d) by the adjudication of a partner as an insolvent.

4. Dissolution by Notice: In case of partnership at will, the firm may be dissolved if any one of the partners gives a notice in writing to the other partners, signifying his intention of seeking dissolution of the firm.

5. Dissolution by Court: At the suit of a partner, the court may order a partnership firm to be dissolved on any of the following grounds: 

(a) when a partner becomes insane; 

(b) when a partner becomes permanently incapable of performing his duties as a partner; 

(c) when a partner is guilty of misconduct which is likely to adversely affect the business of the firm; 

(d) when a partner persistently commits breach of partnership agreement; 

(e) when a partner has transferred the whole of his interest in the firm to a third party; 

(f) when the business of the firm cannot be carried on except at a loss; or 

(g) when, on any ground, the court regards dissolution to be just and equitable.