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Consider the following pairs: Terms sometimes see in news Context/Topic Belle II 1. : Artificial Intelligence experiment Blockchain 2. : Digital/Cryptocurr

Consider the following pairs: Terms sometimes see in news Context/Topic Belle II 1. : Artificial Intelligence experiment Blockchain 2. : Digital/Cryptocurrency technology CRISPR – 3. : Particle Physics Cas9 Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
  1. A. 1 and 3 only
  2. B. 2 only
  3. C. 2 and 3 only
  4. D. 1, 2 and 3

Answer: B

Explanation

The Belle II experiment is a particle physics experiment designed to study the properties of B mesons (heavy particles containing a bottom quark). Belle II is the successor to the Belle experiment, and is currently being commissioned at the SuperKEKB accelerator complex at KEK in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Blockchain technology can be integrated into multiple areas. The primary use of blockchains today is as a distributed ledger for cryptocurrencies, most notably bitcoin. While a few central banks, in countries and regions such as India, China, Hong Kong, United States, Sweden, Singapore, South Africa and the United Kingdom are studying issuance of a Central Bank Issued Cryptocurrency (CICC). CRISPR-Cas9 is a genome editing tool. It is short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated protein 9.