MCQ Bank
The type of fermentation is generally defined as the growth of the microorganism on moist solid materials in the absence or near the absence of free water.
- A) Solid state (substratum) fermentation
- B) none
- C) Surface fermentation
- D) Submerged Fermentation
Which of the following is a benefit of GMOs to humans?
- A) All answers are correct.
- B) Increased crop yield
- C) Resistance to herbicides, allowing farmers to selectively kill weeds in a field
- D) Decreased risk for infection by insect
In Phase III, the vaccine is given to ------- of people and tested for efficacy and safety.
- A) Thousand
- B) Million
- C) Small
- D) Hundred
Bioremediation depends on the activities of ------------ organisms to clean up pollutants dispersed in the environment.
- A) Dead
- B) Weak
- C) none
- D) Living
----------- was the first country to produce ethanol in large scale by yeast fermentation, utilizing sugarcane and cassava.
- A) China
- B) Japan
- C) Germany
- D) Brazil
Pyrethrum flower is an example of
- A) Natural pesticide
- B) Artificial pesticide
- C) Pesticide
- D) Chemical pesticide
he word antimicrobial derive from------ word that means-------?
- A) Greek – against microbes
- B) Latin – against bacteria
- C) Latin – Help microbes
- D) English – against microbes
The genome size of Streptomyces coelicolor is
- A) 5 Mb
- B) 7.5 Mb
- C) 6.5 Mb
- D) 8.7 Mb
Process in which microorganisms played a role in the dissolution of metals from their ores, termed as
- A) Biomining
- B) Bioleaching
- C) Bio surfactants
- D) Bio absorption
The techniques used involves annealing of fractionated mRNA with the cognate pieces of DNA, and reverse transcriptase– PCR, in which mRNA is used as a template to produce cDNA, which is then amplified by PCR.
- A) Southern Blot
- B) Northern Blot
- C) Western Blot
- D) Eastern Blot