“Insufficiency of consideration is immaterial, but a valid contract must be supported by lawful and real consideration”. Comment.
See Answer →Fraud and Misrepresentation
See Answer →Coercion and undue influence
See Answer →Explain briefly the law relating to communication of offer, acceptance and revocation. Is there limit of time after which an offer cannot be revoked?
See Answer →Consider the following page-reference string:
1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 5, 6, 2, 1, 2, 3, 7, 6, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 6
How many page faults would occur for the following replacement algorithms, assuming three frames? Remember all frames are initially empty
a. FIFO replacement b. LRU replacement c. Optimal
Mention the merits and demerits of each of the above algorithms.
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Compare the degradation and the biosynthesis of fatty acids.
See Answer →What is substrate chanelling in Kreb’s cycle? Explain.
See Answer →Write the mechanism of conversion of G-3-P into pyruvate.
See Answer →What are coupling reactions? Explain their significance in biochemical reactions.
See Answer →Name and describe the experiment which proved that ‘DNA is the material that communicates the genetic information’.
See Answer →Differentiate between nucleosides and nucleotides and illustrate your answer.
See Answer →What are phospholipids? Describe in brief the different classes of phospholipids.
See Answer →Describe the structural and functional basis of classification of lipids.
See Answer →What is Michaelis-Menton equation? Describe its significance in affecting the rate of an enzymatic reaction.
See Answer →Explain the physiological aspect of specificity of enzyme action that distinguishes it from the non-enzyme part in a catalyst.
See Answer →Describe the covalent interactions involved in protein folding.
See Answer →Describe in brief the Merrifield solid phase synthesis of peptides.
See Answer →How is peptide bond formed? Explain the stereochemistry of a peptide bond
See Answer →Consider the following set of processes, with the length of the CPU burst time given in milliseconds.
| Process | Burst time | Priority |
| P1 | 8 | 3 |
| P2 | 3 | 1 |
| P3 | 4 | 4 |
| P4 | 7 | 2 |
| P5 | 6 | 5 |
The processes are assumed to have arrived in the order P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5 and
all of them have arrived at time 0.
a. Draw corresponding Gantt charts illustrating the execution of these processes using FCFS, SJF, SRTN, Priority based scheduling/even-driven scheduling and Round Robin (quantum=2) scheduling algorithms.
b. What is the turnaround time of each process for each of the scheduling algorithm in (a)?
c. What is the waiting time of each process for each of the scheduling algorithm in (a)?
d. Which of the schedules in (a) results in minimal average waiting time (overall processes)?
Describe the behaviour of amino acids in acidic and basic medium. What is the significance of their Zwitterionic Nature?
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