CULTURAL QA 03-2022-10 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Doold kidneys get removed after a person gets a kidney transplant? A1 Vivienne Marcus appliedneurophysiologist. Updated Mar 1 No. Thenew kidney isn’t put into the same place as the old kidneys. Once they remove a kidney fortransplantation, the artery, vein and ureter aren’t long enough to successfullyplumb it in in the same place. Instead, a transplanted kidney is plumbed in in the patient’spelvis, where the artery and vein are connected to the pelvic bloodvessels, and it doesn’t need to be supported by anything; it can just liethere. The ureter is connected to the bladder. There’s no point removing theold kidneys, so they typically just leave them alone. The exception is the circumstance where atransplanted kidney fails and has to be removed because of rejection. Q2 IfI am going from Rushikesh to Ludhiana and has a confirmed seat but I board thetrain from Haridwar, what can be the problems? A2 Ankit Barnawal FormerStudent at Doon Business School, Dehradun (2017–2022)23h You are going from Rishikesh to Ludhiana and you have a confirmed seatbut you want to board the train from Haridwar. Just change the boarding point from Rishikesh to Haridwar and then therewill be no problem at all. Below are some rules and regulations for changing the boarding stationafter booking the e-ticket and i-ticket. The boarding point change isallowed only once. If the ticket is seized, boarding point change is not allowed. For VIKALP option ticket - Passengers will not be allowed to change theboarding point. For e-ticket (i.e. ticketbooked online) - Boarding point can be changed only up to 24 hours before thescheduled departure of the train. For i-ticket (i.e. ticket booked via PRS Counter) - Online boarding pointchange is not allowed. For Current booking ticket(i.e. ticket booked afterfirst chart preparation i.e. 4 hours before the departure of the train) - Boarding point change is notallowed. If a passenger has changed theboarding point, he/she will lose all the rights to board the train from theoriginal boarding point. The difference in fare with penalty is to be paid by the passenger ifhe/she is found travelling from original boarding point after changing theboarding point. Hope you are clear now !!! Q3 Howis the heart still able to function when a person is in a coma and has lostmany functions in parts of their cerebrum? A3 Ken SaladinAuthor,Anatomy & Physiology—The Unity of Form and FunctionSun The heart doesn’t depend on the brain to function. It has its own internal pacemaker and beats on itsown. It goes on beating even if you cut all nerves to it, and even if youremove it entirely from a person’s body. When hearttransplant surgery is done, the new heart is not (and cannot be) connected to therecipient’s brain.From 76% to 98% of heart transplant patients don’t even get anartificial pacemaker; the transplanted heart works adequately without one.[1] Q4 IfSouthern Indian States, namely Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh andTelangana, can develop so much with less river water facilities, why couldn'tUttar Pradesh, though being in Gangetic plains, develop like the SouthernIndian States? A4 Praveen KumarRajendran I live here for 20+ Years Mon Population of Kerala is 3.4 CrPopulation of Tamil Nadu is 6.7Populationof Andhra Pradesh is 5.5 crPopulation of Telangana is 4.1 crPopulation ofKarnataka is 6.4 Population of Uttar Pradesh is20. 4 cr In a literal sense, One stateof India has 5 state's population. And the real problem is not population, it's population growth. The rate at which populationexplosion took place in UP was very high. States like Kerala andTamil Nadu has successfully implemented various measures to control thepopulation in accordance to the resources available. Governments in UP had failed to successfully implement population controlmeasures. Result of this failure gets reflected in all other parameters. Past is Past. The only solutionto save the people of that region is to divide the state into 4 differentregions. This will enable tohave good governance. Q5 Arekangaroos harmless animals in the UK? A5 Claire Jordan Degreein biology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Tue Kangaroos in the UK live onlyin zoos. We do have severalcolonies of feral wallabies who escaped from collections and set up shop, butyes, they’re quite small and amiable. The only harm I’ve ever heard of onedoing anyone was decades ago when an unfortunate tourist from New Zealand, whohad a drink problem, supposedly handed himself in to the local police becausehe believed he must be suffering from delirium tremens, after seeing wallabieson the shores of Loch Lomond. Q6 Whydoes a dog's liver have six lobes when the human liver has only two? A6 Ken SaladinFormerprofessor of histology (microscopic anatomy)Updated 56m The human liver has four lobes—left, right, caudate, and quadrate. Butyou’re right about the dog.[1] Why do dogs’ and cats’ livers have six? Why not? What difference does itmake? Why do human, goat, and horse livers have four? Why does a whale liverhave two? Does it matter? To some extent this question could be answered by looking at the embryonicpattern of branching of the hepatobiliary duct system. That drives thedevelopment of connective tissue septa and that in turn drives the number ofeventual lobes of the liver. But that doesn’t really answer the fundamentalquestion—it just kicks the can down the road a little bit, leaving thequestion: Why does a dog have six hepatobiliary branches and humans have four?So we haven’t really answered the question. The real answer would like inwhether there is some functional or adaptive significance to 4 versus 6 lobes,related to the habits or needs of the animal. I think there probably is none. We could go on and on with this. Why do humans have five lung lobes,horses have four, and cats have six? Q7 Whydid sugar cane evolve to have so much sugar, and most all other plants don't?What advantage did that give to the plant? A7 Chris Harper Feb 18 Did you think sugar cane evolved that way naturally? No. We created it through selective breeding. The idea was there was a grass of sortsthat was sweet or it had a lot of residual sugar. People choose the sweetestones and started cross breeding until we got to the sugar cane we have today.Just like sugar beets, another source of sugar. It’s what we do. I mean this is Brassica oleracea: It’s better known as “wildcabbage”. It’s from this we got these: None of these things existed in nature until we started messing aroundwith them and breeding this with that. The plants that selected for specificthings, like leaves, became kale. Those that selected for flowers becamecauliflower. Sugar cane is no different. Itstarted a plant with a sweet stalk that was then hybridized with other similarplants to get the sugar we know today. Q8 What are some placesthat have interesting original names? A8 Aashish Kumar Dimri Onewho loves India Sat Water pipe : It is a small Indian railway junctionin Matheran in Maharashtra . It is named after its water supply pipes. Obsessed : Deewana -means obsessed in Hindi -is a small IndianRailway station in Haryana in India . Sister in law : Sali -means sister in law in Hindi -is a smallIndian Railway station in Jaipur in Rajasthan in India. Lad : It means lad in proverbial Hindi dialects-Haryanvi, Bhojpuri. It is a small Indian Railway junction in Karnataka. Conclusion : “Sticks and stoneswill break my bones, but names will never hurt me” : Proverb Note : Some of the original namesare now officially changed . Q9 Why do many importantrailway junctions have no gravel ballast in the platform area? A9 Prashant Tiwari 8h Everything in Indian Railways is for a reason and here too, there is areason. We often find cemented rail bedsat major railway stations whereas normal ballast rail beds are used for otherstations and route. The reason for using a cementedrail bed is very simple, i.e., cleanliness. With cemented rail beds, it becomes easier for staff to maintaincleanliness at major stations. A few years back, there were nobio toilets, and all human waste was discharged onto the tracks. We all know that trains at major stations stop for10–20 minutes, which means more waste on the tracks. The railways came up with this idea to maintain cleanliness at majorstations, and it really worked. Nowadays, trains have bio-toilets, so no human waste goes on tracks. Sometimes people leave some wrappers, used disposals, etc.which are cleaned by staff. Q10 Is it okay to use yourleft hand when eating in the UK? A10 Claire Jordan Degree inbiology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper2h As opposed to the US way, you mean? Yes, it’s the custom in the UK to use the fork (andtransfer food to the mouth) in the left hand, and use the knife in the right -unless you are left-handed, in which case the sides are reversed. Right-handedpeople only use a fork in the right hand when eating something like macaronicheese that doesn’t need to be cut Q12 Why is the occurrence ofdiabetes so low in Japan when white rice is staple? A12 Lucia Garcia Worked atHospitals41m Rice is estimated to be the staple food for 3.6 billion people worldwide,more than half of the world's population. Rice contains about 75%carbohydrates, which are converted into glucose in the body, causing bloodsugar to rise, thereby increasing the risk of diabetes. Some studies have shown that eating 3 bowls of rice a day increases therisk of diabetes by 20%. However, rice is the staple food of the Japanese, who eat rice with everymeal, but the prevalence of diabetes in Japan is low. Rice is also a staple food in China. Chinese always eat freshly cooked,warm rice. The Japanese are different, most Japanese eat "cold rice"at all meals. The incidence of diabetes in China is about 12.5%, which is much higherthan that in Japan. Rice contains a lot of starch.When cooked rice cools down, most starches are converted into "resistantstarches." The rice that was cooked then cooled had 2.5 times more resistant starchthan the freshly cooked rice. Resistant starch is a specialcarb. Resistant starch is not digested and absorbed by the small intestine, can increase satiety, lower blood sugar, improveinsulin resistance, and reduce the incidence of diabetes. WHO has stated: "Thediscovery of resistant starch is one of the most important results of researchon the relationship between carbohydrates and health in the past twodecades." All the above QA are from Quora website on 09-03- 2022. Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on10-03-2022 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1537468350.317110.1646872393314%40mail.yahoo.com.
