PG Diploma PLANT AND ANIMAL TISSUE CULTURE AND GENETIC ENGINEERING(Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2011)

P.G. DIPLOMA EXAMINATION, MAY 2011
Biotechnology
Paper III — PLANT AND ANIMAL TISSUE CULTURE AND GENETIC ENGINEERING
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Answer any FIVE questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. Describe the methods of sterilizations of media.
2. Write an account on Bergman's plating techniques.
3. Describe how the haploids are produced and their importance in plant tissue culture.
4. Write an account on the isolation of protoplast, its culture and fusion techniques.
5. Describe the various constituents of culture medium.
6. Write an account on the techniques and types of mammalian cell cultures.
7. Describe stem cell culture techniques and its applications.
8. Write an account on in-vitro fertilizations and embryo transfer.
9. Describe how the enzymes are used in genetic engineering.
10. Write an account on gene therapy and its applications in biotechnology.

B.A English DRAMA AND FICTION(Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2012)

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
(Examination at the end of Third Year)
Part II — English
Paper I — DRAMA AND FICTION
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
1. (a) Answer any TWO of the following, each in 200 words : (20)
(i) Assess the importance of the influence of Latin on the growth of English
vocabulary.
(ii) Explain with illustrations any three modes of semantic change.
(iii) Describe the rise of standard English.
(iv) Write a paragraph each on TWO of the following :
(1) Family of languages
(2) Slang
(3) Word formation
(4) Prefixes.
Read the following passages (b) and (c) carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Your answer should be complete. They will be evaluated by the correctness of your
language and relevant matter. (10 + 10 = 20)
(b) I, who am blind can give one hint to those who see-one admonition to those who would make full use of the gift of sight. Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Make the most of every sense : glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight must be the most delightful.
(i) What is the theme of the passage?
(ii) What is Keller’s advice to those who can see?
(iii) What suggestions does she offer to those who can hear?
(iv) What is Hellen Keller’s advice to people about the use of their senses?
(v) What does the author want to convey through the last sentence of the passage?
(c) Read the poem and answer the questions :
I hold no dream of fortune vast Nor seek undying fame I do not ask when life is past That may know my name I may not own the skill to rise To glory’s topmost height, Nor win a place among the wise, But I can keep the right And I can live my life on earth Contented to the end If but a few shall know my worth And proudly call me friend? (i) What is the theme of this poem?
(ii) What does the poet seek or dream of?
(iii) What is the poet’s attitude to glory and wisdom?
(iv) What kind of life does the poet want to lead?
(v) What philosophy of life does the poem present?2. (a) Answer any ONE of the following in 200 words : (10)
(i) How does Wordsworth show the importance and beauty that each sonnet
possesses in ‘‘Scorn not the Sonnet’’?
(ii) Would you regard Shelly as a poet of hope and aspiration. Answer with reference
to ‘‘Ode to the West Wind’’.
(iii) Write a critical appreciation of Browning’s ‘‘My Last Duchess’’.
(b) Answer any ONE of the following : (10)
(i) Gray’s elegy is one of the best known poems about death in all of European
literature. Do you agree?
(ii) ‘‘Nothing remains hidden from the eyes of the supremely kind and all powerful
creator’’. How does the ballad of Father Gilligan’’ bring out the truth of this
statement?
(iii) How does Burns show that his love is strong and passionate and like a battle in a
‘‘A Red, Red Rose’’?
3. Answer any TWO in about 200 words : (10 + 10 = 20)
(a) What are the basic features of drama?
(b) Is ‘‘The Marriage Proposal’’ a satire on the upper middle class and courtship? Explain.
(c) Narrate how Mrs. Pearson’s family learns to give het more respect.
(d) Give an analysis of the main characters in ‘‘The best Laid Plans’’.
4. Answer any TWO of the following in 200 words :
(a) Explain how the elements of fiction work together.
(b) Comment on the theme of unselfish love in ‘‘The gift of the Magi’’.
(c) Discuss the main theme in ‘‘The Interview’’.
(d) How does ‘‘The Tell-Tale Heart’’ reveal truth and evoke emotions in the reader?

B.A English 3rd Year LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE(Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2012)

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
(Examination at the end of Third Year)
Part II — English
Paper IV — LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
1. Answer ONE of the following in about 300 words. (15)
(a) Bring out the characteristics features of the Age of Pope.
(b) Illuminate the Age of Shakespeare
(c) Examine the special features of the Age of Milton
2. Answer any ONE of the following in about 300 words. (15)
(a) Bring out the significant qualities of the Modern Age.
(b) Describe the special features of the Age of Words worth
(c) What are the special features of the Age of Jennyson
3. Bring out the literary achievements of any TWO of the following. (10 + 10 = 20)
(a) Spencer
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Keats
(d) Charles Dickens
(e) Marlowe 4. Answer any TWO of the following in about 300 words. (15 + 15 = 30)
(a) What is American English? In what respect does it differ from British English.
(b) Consider english as a universal language.
(c) Highlight the Indo-European family of languages and the descent of english.
(d) Give an account of the characteristics of Middle English
5. Define and illustrate any FOUR of the following (4× 5 = 20)
(a) Epigram
(b) Metonymy
(c) Antithesis
(d) Irony
(e) Synecdoche
(f) Alliteration
(g) Hyperbole
(h) Pun

B.A Statistics 6th Sem APPLIED STATISTICS (Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2012)

B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
(Examination at the end of Final Year)
Statistics
Paper III — APPLIED STATISTICS
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A – (4 × 20 = 80 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
1. (a) What is a simple random sample? Mention the various methods of draming a random
sample. Derive the unbiased estimates of the population mean and its variance based
on without replacement.
(b) Explain systematic sampling. Show that st sys n R
(var / y ) ≤ var(y ) ≤ var(y ) under the
conditions to be specified by you.
2. Work out the analysis of variance for a one-way classification with one observation per cell.
Where do you use it? State the mathematical model and hypothesis to be used in a two-way
ANOVA.
3. (a) Explain the various basic principles underlying design of experiments.
(b) What is meant by a Randamized block design? Work out the analysis of variance for
randamised block design? Obtain its efficiency compared to CRD.
4. Explain the basic principles underlying the control charts. Distinguish clearly between chart
for variables and chart for attributes. Determine the control charts for np and c charts.
Under what situations are they used?
5. (a) What are the uses of vital statistics? Explain the registration and census methods.
(b) Define and compare various methods of fertility.6. (a) Describe the functions and organisation of N.S.S.O.
(b) Define "reproduction rates" and explain how for they may be looked upon as indices of
population growth. What is an abridged life table?
7. (a) Describe the nature and components of time series. Show that the moving average
method of determining the trend of a time series is related to the method of fitting
curves by the principle of least squares.
(b) What are seasonal fluctuations? Explain ratio to trend and link relative methods.
8. (a) What are index numbers? Show their usefulness in forecasting economic events.
Discuss the mathematical tests for an ideal number. Illustrate these with respect to
Fisher's Ideal index Number.
(b) Explain
(i) base shifting and
(ii) splicing of index numbers and illustrate.
SECTION B – (10 × 2 = 20 marks)
Answer ALL questions.
9. (a) Census.
(b) Optimal allocation.
(c) Advantages of RBD.
(d) Define Latin Square Design.
(e) Control limits for X and R charts.
(f) Rates and Ratios.
(g) Standardised death rates
(h) Relation between mx and qx.
(i) Normal equations in fitting an experimental curve.
(j) Wholesale price index number

B.Com 6th Sem BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORT WRITING(Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2012)

B.Com. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
(Examination at the end of Final Year)
Part II — Commerce
Paper III — BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORT WRITING
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A — (4 × 5 = 20 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
1. Print media

2. Counselling

3. Upward Communication

4. informal communication

5. Enquiries

6. Grapevine communication

7. Good listening

8. Termination order
SECTION B — (2 × 10 = 20 marks)
Answer any TWO questions.
9. Briefly explain how communication would evolve itself in human society.

10. State the merits and demerits of oral communication

11. What are the basic principle of report writing?

12. Is communication a competent weapon in business image building? Discuss.

SECTION C — (3 × 20 = 60 marks)
Answer any THREE questions.
13. Bring out the scope and significance of communication.

14. What is upward communication? Mention its advantages and disadvantages.

15. Explain barries to communication with reference to vagueness and in-attention.

16. What role does communication play in decision making in business sep up?

17. Write a model of business letter of your choice.

18. What do you mean by report writing? State the steps you following report writing. 

B.A 3rd Year REPORT GENERATOR (Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2012)

B.A./B.Com. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
Third Year
Paper V — REPORT GENERATOR
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A — (3 × 20 = 60 marks)
Answer any THREE questions.
1. Explain about different parts of Excel Sheet with neat diagram.

2. Explain different available formatting option in Excel.

3. Explain different types of charts in Excel.

4. Explain the meaning and advantages of functions available in Excel.
 
5. Explain different views of a Excel work sheet.
 
6. What is a cell address? What are the different addressing methods available in Excel?
Explain each method with example.

SECTION B — (5 × 6 = 30 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
7. Explain sheet operations in Excel.

8. How to insert and delete columns in a work sheet?
9. How to create a macro in Excel?

10. Explain about filter command in Excel.

11. Explain about importing and exporting data in MS-Excel.

12. How to create hyperlink in Excel?

13. Explain working with data forms.

SECTION C — (5 × 2 = 10 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
14. Clip Art.

15. Sorting.

16. Spell cherk in MS-Excel.

17. Clearing parts of a worksheet.

18. Rotating 3-D charts in Excel.

19. Hide and unhide.

20. Saving a file in Excel. 

B.A DATABASE APPLICATIONS (Acharya Nagarjuna University (ANU), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh-2012)

B.A./B.Com. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012.
(Examination at the end of Final Year)
Paper IV — DATABASE APPLICATIONS
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
SECTION A — (3 × 20 = 60 marks)
Answer any THREE questions.
1. Explain how will you create a table wizard and give example.

2. Explain various sections of a Report in MS-Access.

3. How to create graph objects that can be included in Access Reports?

4. What are the ways to create a form and explain with example?

5. Explain how to create a blank database in Access.

6. Explain about Access window and its various items.

SECTION B — (5 × 6 = 30 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
7. Explain how to edit a Record.

8. Explain about Access data types and properties.
9. How freezing of columns is done in Access?

10. What are the advantages of relational databases over flat files?

11. Distinguish between importing and linking.

12. Explain different ways to find the date.

13. Explain about various types of relationships.

SECTION C — (5 × 2 = 10 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
14. Moving objects.

15. Wild card characters.

16. What is primary key? Explain.

17. Filtering.

18. What is an object frame?

19. Linking of records in Access.

20. Switching out of data entry mode in MS-Access.