GATE Question of the Day - General Aptitude and Mathematics Question

The horse has played a little known but very important role in the field of medicine. Horses were injected with toxins of diseases until their blood built up immunities. Then a serum was made from their blood. Serums to fight with diphtheria and tetanus were developed this way. It can be inferred from the passage, that horses were

(A) given immunity to diseases

(B) generally quite immune to diseases

(C) given medicines to fight toxins

(D) given diphtheria and tetanus serums

[Ans. B] From the passage it cannot be inferred that horses are given immunity as in (A), since the aim is to develop medicine and in turn immunize humans. (B) is correct since it is given that horses develop immunity after some time. Refer “until their blood built up immunities”. Even (C) is invalid since medicine is not built till immunity is developed in the horses. (D) is incorrect since specific examples are cited to illustrate and this cannot capture the essence.

The value of the integral where is the circle is given by

(A) 0
(B) 1/10
(C) 4/5
(D) 1

[Ans. A]

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