MCQ Bank
The advantages of liquid biofertilizers are
- A) Difficult to use
- B) Risk of contamination is high
- C) None
- D) Long shelf life
A liter of ethanol contains approximately ------- of the energy provided by a liter of petrol
- A) Two fourth
- B) two thirds
- C) both
- D) none
The first human vaccines were based on ------------- pathogens that cannot cause disease.
- A) none
- B) live
- C) weakened or killed
- D) killed by chemical
A type of vaccine which is made by an inactivated toxin whose toxicity has been suppressed either by chemical or heat Treatment. --------
- A) Live attenuated
- B) Subunit vaccine
- C) None of these
- D) Toxoid Vaccine
Do GMOs have an impact on the price of food?
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
The (Vitamin C) also called as
- A) Pyridoxine
- B) Riboflavin
- C) Thiamine
- D) Ascorbic acid
Which type of vaccine would evoke a strong antibody response to the free-floating antigen secreted by cells, and also would stimulate a strong cellular response against the microbial antigens displayed on cell surfaces
- A) Subunit vaccine
- B) Toxoid vaccine
- C) DNA vaccine
- D) None of these
In a third step the antigen will need to be purified in order to produce a high purity/quality product. For this purpose several protein purification steps will be carried out using the differences in ---------
- A) Protein size
- B) Binding affinity or biological activity.
- C) Binding affinity or biological activity.
- D) All of above
Microorganisms can be considered as a ---- tool for metal removal because they can be used to concentrate, remove, and recover heavy metals from contaminated aquatic environments.
- A) Physical
- B) Biological
- C) None
- D) Chemical
Although the potential use of plant-microbe interactions has been recommended as a means to maximize the economic returns of
- A) Leather industry
- B) Fermented industry
- C) Agriculture industry
- D) Paper industry
During Variable volume fed batch culture, the Volume of culture is ------------- by adding same medium
- A) none
- B) Remain same
- C) Decrease
- D) Increase
During Phase I of Clinical development of vaccine --------groups of people receive the trial vaccine
- A) No one
- B) Small
- C) No one
- D) Large
Amino acids such as --------- and --------- are used in the food industry as nutritional supplements in bread products and as flavor enhancing compounds such as Monosodium Glutamate (MSG).
- A) Lysine and Glutamic acid
- B) Arginine and Glutamic acid
- C) Lysine and Aspartic acid
- D) Leucine and Glutamic acid
Stirred tank bio-oxidation is the fastest method of bioleaching but, due to ------ costs, is only appropriate for some operations and is currently being used at ten different sites across the world.
- A) Higher
- B) Lower
- C)
- D)
------------- Metal is inert to microbial action.
- A) Gold
- B) Silver
- C) Platinum
- D) None
BT rice in Pakistan could result in a substantial increase in insecticide use on rice
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
The fourth step may include the ------------ which is a material that enhances the recipient’s immune response to a supplied antigen.
- A) Addition of an adjuvant
- B) Addition of antibody
- C) none
- D) Addition of Antigen
Which is true about term Vaccine
- A) The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as foreign, destroy it, and keep a record of it
- B) A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe
- C) All of above
- D) Biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease.
-------------- Fermentations are those where the substratum may be solid or liquid. The organism grows on the substratum and draws the nutrients from the substratum.
- A) Surface Fermentation
- B) Submerged Fermentation
- C) fermentation
- D) Solid state Fermentation
The word “adjuvant” means “to
- A) Sequence
- B) Design
- C) Mutate
- D) Help