IAS BABA

IMPORTANT TOPICS FOR PRELIMS 2024

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

REPEATED THEMES REPEATED TOPICS

BIOTECHNOLOGY • Mycorrhizal Technology and its applications in Agriculture (2013)
AND ITS • Recombinant DNA Technology (2013)
APPLICATIONS • Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (2015)
• Transcriptome–Bioinformatics (2016)
• Genome Sequencing and its applications (2017)
• Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Technology (2017)
• CRISPR Cas9 protein (2018,2019)
• GM mustard and its features (2018)
• RNA interference technology (RNAi) and anti-sense RNA
technology(2019)
• Functional Chromosomes and Artificial functional DNA(2019)
• Genetics – Human induced pluripotent stem cells (2020)
• Pronuclear Transfer – Advances in Human Reproductive
Technology (2020)
• DNAgenomes (2021)
• Bollgard–1 andBollgard –2technologies (2021)
• ACE–2technologyanditsprocedures (2021)
• Public Key Infrastructure(2020)
• Cybersecurity(2017)
• Smart India Hackathon –2017 (2017)
INFORMATION • Block chain Technology.(2018)
TECHNOLOGY • Digital signature and its applications(2017)
• Wannacry,Petya,Ransomware,EternalBlue – Cyberattacks (2018)
• Internet of Things(2018)
• Artificial Intelligence and its applications (2020)
Software as a Service(SaaS)(2022)

Repeated Themes 2013-2023

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IMPORTANT TOPICS FOR PRELIMS 2024
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
REPEATED THEMES REPEATED TOPICS
COMMUNICATION • Near field communication Technology(2015)
TECHNOLOGY • Applications GPS technology (2018)
• Visible Light Communication Technology (VLC technology) (2020)
• Project LOON (2016)
• Differences between LTE (Long term evolution) and VOLTE (Voice
over long term evolution)(2019)
• Augmented Reality(AR) v/s Virtual Reality.(VR) (2019)
• OLED sand their applications (2017)
• Li-fi v/s Wi-fi (2016)
•Built on top of open-source digital plat forms qubit (2022)
• Short-Range devices/technologies (2022)
NANO- • Carbon Nanotubes–Properties and their applications in Health
TECHNOLOGY sector (2015,2020)

MISSILE • Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (2022)

TECHNOLOGY • Types of missiles and technologies involved (2023)
DISEASES, • Vitamin deficiency diseases.(2014)
CAUSATIVE • Diptheria, Chickenpox, Smallpox (2014)
AGENTS AND • H1N1virus (2015)
VACCINES • Hepatitis-Band HIV virus (2019)
• Multi-drug resistance in microbial pathogens (2019)
• Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines. (PCVvaccine) – (2020)
• Viruses–Adenovirus and Retrovirus (2021)
• Hereditary Diseases-Mitochondrial Diseases(2021)
• Recombinant Vector Vaccines (2021)
• Biofilms vaccines manufactured to prevent COVID-19 pandemic
role of B cells and T cells in the human body (2022)
• Anemia Mukt Bharat Strategy (2023)

Repeated Themes 2013-2023

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IMPORTANT TOPICS FOR PRELIMS 2024

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

REPEATED THEMES REPEATED TOPICS

• Cassini Huygens, Messenger, Voyager and their purposes (2014)
• Indian Remote sensing Satellites and their applications (2015)
SPACE • Mangalyaan (2017)
TECHNOLOGY
• International Thermonuclear experimental Reactor– The Miniature
Sun (2017)
• Termslike ‘EventHorizon, ‘Singularity’,‘String theory’ and‘standard
model’– (2017)
• Domestic content requirement (2017)
• Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity (2018)
• Satellite Navigation System (2023)

Repeated Themes 2013-2023

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IMPORTANT TOPICS FOR PRELIMS 2024
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
REPEATED THEMES REPEATED TOPICS
• Dispersion, Refraction and Internal reflection (2013)
• Fuel cells –Hydrogen enrich fuel and oxygen (2015)
• Chemicals like Brominated vegetable oils, Monosodium Glutamate
and their concerns. (2017)
• Aadhar and Application Programme Interface. (API) (2018)
• 3D-printing and its applications.(2018)
• Belle-2 Experiment (2018)
MISCELLANEOUS • Wearable Technologies and their applications (2019)
CONCEPTS. • Denisovan.(2019)
• Drones and their applications (2020)
• Differences between plant cell and Animal cell.(2020)
• Triclosan and its concerns (2021)
•Bisphenol –A(BPA)–Plastic composition (2021)
• Sodium lamps v/s LED lamps (2021)
Probiotics - major solar storm (solar flare) effects on Earth(2022)
• Biotechnology and its Applications – DNA Barcoding (2022)
• Home Guards (2023)
• The Arms (Amendment) Act,2019 (2023)
• Aerial Metagenomics (2023)
• Microsatellite DNA (2023)
• Carbon Fibers (2023)
•Technology/Functions involved in - Detection of Car crash/
Collision, Detection of accidental free fall of laptop on ground,
Detection of tilt of smart phone (2023)

Repeated Themes 2013-2023