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20 Questions with Answers and Explanations on “Wildlife & Conservation” for Biology Students:1. The most important human activity, leading to the extinction of wildlife, is (a) pollution of air and water Image Source: wildbabyrescue.org ADVERTISEMENTS: (b) hunting for valuable wildlife products(c) introduction of alien species(d) alteration and destruction of the natural habitats. ADVERTISEMENTS: Answer and Explanation:1. (d): Wildlife includes all those naturally occurring plant and animal species which are neither cultivated, or domesticated nor tamed. Several hundred organisms are endangered or on the verge of extinction. The reasons are deforestation, pollution, killing, over exploitation etc. The most important among them is deforestation or destruction of their natural habitat because it will affect the species (flora and fauna) of complete area and not only the few organisms.The natural habitat may be…

The Shebait or manager of a temple is the administrator of the properties attached to it, as regards which he is in the position of the trustee. As regard the service of the temple and the duties appertaining to it, his position is that of the holder of an office of dignity.Shebaitship involves two ideas: (i) the ministrant of the deity, and (ii) its manager. It is an office to which certain rights are attached. A Shebait has no legal property in the debutter; it vests in the idol. He has only the title of the manager, and as such, he is entitled to the custody of the idol and its property. Offerings made to an idol belong to (i) the temple, where they are of a permanent character, and…

The following are the fourteen main rights of a coparcener: 1. Community of interest and unity of possession: No coparcener is entitled to exclusive possession of any part of the coparcenary property; nor is any coparcener entitled to any special interest in such property. Image Source: i.ytimg.com ADVERTISEMENTS: As observed by the Privy Council in Katama Natchairv. Rajah of Shivagunga (1893 9 M.I.A. 539), “there is community of interest and unity of possession between all the members of the family”. 2. Share of Income: A member of a joint family cannot, at any given moment, predicate what his share in the joint family property is. Such a share becomes defined only when a partition takes place. The reason is that his share is a fluctuating one, which is liable to…

It was September 27, 2010, when the Brazilian finance minister stated that an “international currency war” has erupted. Three separate but related battles are going on – first, there is the old and serious problem of a more or less inflexible pegging of the Chinese Yuan to the US dollar contributing to the massive Chinese current account surpluses and huge international reserve holdings and correspondingly large and unsustainable deficits elsewhere.Second is the exceptionally loose monetary policy being followed (after the 2008-09 global crisis) by major industrial countries, including the USA, the UK, Japan and, to some extent, the Euro zone. Policy rates in these jurisdictions are at or close to zero and money supply is being boosted through “quantitative easing” (QE), whereby the central banks pump up liquidity by purchasing…