This document contains 40 multiple choice questions about microbes and their applications in areas like human welfare, food production, biotechnology, and environmental management. It covers topics like probiotics, antibiotics, uses of microbes in food fermentation and production, roles of microbes in sewage treatment, biopesticides, biogas production, and microbes that help improve soil fertility. The questions assess understanding of the functions of various microbes and their significance.
This document contains 40 multiple choice questions about microbes and their applications in areas like human welfare, food production, biotechnology, and environmental management. It covers topics like probiotics, antibiotics, uses of microbes in food fermentation and production, roles of microbes in sewage treatment, biopesticides, biogas production, and microbes that help improve soil fertility. The questions assess understanding of the functions of various microbes and their significance.
This document contains 40 multiple choice questions about microbes and their applications in areas like human welfare, food production, biotechnology, and environmental management. It covers topics like probiotics, antibiotics, uses of microbes in food fermentation and production, roles of microbes in sewage treatment, biopesticides, biogas production, and microbes that help improve soil fertility. The questions assess understanding of the functions of various microbes and their significance.
1. Using of living microorganisms for therapeutic purposes and betterment of human health is called ------------ 2. Best probiotic bacteria is ------------ 3. Toddy is made by fermenting sap from ------------ 4. Proteinaceous infectious agents are ------------- 5. Large holes in Swiss cheese are due to the production of --------by bacterium----- 6. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is called as ---------and ---------- 7. Roquifort cheese is ripened by growing a specific ---------on it 8. Large vessels used to grow microbes during fermentation are referred as------ 9. Alcohols produced without distillation---------and------------ 10. First antibiotic that was discovered is-------------- 11. Penicillin doesn’t allow the growth of----------- in unwashed culture plates 12. Plague is caused by-------- 13. Name the fungus which produces citric acid-------------- 14. Bottled juices are clarified by the use of ------------ and------------ 15. ‘Clot buster’ is obtained from -------------- 16. Blood cholesterol lowering agent is----------- 17. Trichoderma species are used as------------ and also as-------------- 18. ---------virus causes respiratory infection 19. Secondary sewage treatment is mainly a ----------- 20. Flocs includes------------------------ 21. ------------- is the biocontroler against soil born fungi 22. In which step of sewage treatment removes suspended solids-------- 23. Statins are produced by------------ 24. Lady bird and dragonflies are useful to get rid of--------&--------- 25. ------------------viruses are excellent candidates for species-specific,narrow spectrum insecticidal applications 26. BOD of water is estimated by measuring the amount of------------ 27. Deapth of biogas plant is--------- 28. ------------ is the first bioinsecticide based on Bacillus thuringiensis 29. Bacteria used to clean oil spills------------- 30. An example of predaceous bacteria is------------- 31. % of methane gas in gober gas ------------------ 32. The technology of biogas production in india mainly due to the efforts of-------------- and--- ------ 33. Acellular, infectious microbes are---------------- 34. ------------ eliminate weeds through secreting chemicals (ex:Alfalfa) 35. ------------causes gal ghotu 36. Autotrophic microbes which increases soil fertility includes--------------- 37. Aulosira is a----------------- 38. Mycorrhiza are efficient in absorption of------- 39. A nitrogen-fixing microbe associated with Azolla leaves is------------- 40. ---------------enzyme helpful in removing oily stains