Media for Industrial Fermentations

This quiz contains multiple-choice problems on carbon and nitrogen sources, minerals, growth factors and buffers, medium optimisation, precursors, regulators and antifoams.

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Which of the following is not a criterion to create a media?

It should be able to produce the maximum yield of product It should be able to produce the maximum concentration of product It should be easily sterilized It should permit the maximum rate of product formation, no matter how costly it is

Which of the following is absent in fermentation media?

Carbon Nitrogen Agar Water

Which of the following raw material is useful for the production of alcohol?

Waste liquor Molasses Starch Alkanes

Which of the following is not the class of vegetable oils?

Non-drying Semi-drying Drying Heat-drying

Which of the following is a by-product after starch extraction from maize?

Blackstrap molasses Hydrol molasses Corn steep liquor Beet molasses

Which of the following is used for glutamic acid production?

Sucrose Hydrolyzed cassava starch Oleic acid Corn steep

Which of the following is not a carbon source?

Blackstrap molasses

Corn molasses

Beet molasses

Yeast extract

The Maillard reaction is a chemical reaction between __ and __

amino acid, carboxylic acid

amino acid, reducing sugars

carboxylic acid, reducing sugar

carboxylic acid, carbonyl groups

Sulphite waste liquor is obtained from

Paper pulp industry

Wood industry

Liquor industry

Sulphur production

Which of the following is not a constituent of beet molasses?

Biotin

Thiamine

Inositol

Cobalamin

Which of the following is the raw material for lactic acid and SCP production?

Fruit juices

Beet molasses

Cheese whey

Hydrocarbons

The sources of complex carbohydrates are wood wastes, straws, cobs, beet molasses, and hydrol molasses. True or false?

True

False

Which of the following is used in silage production?

Cheese whey

Rice straw

Wood molasses

Cellulose

Torula utilis requires __ and __

Hexose and pentose

Hexose and pyranose

Pyranose and pentose

Ketose and fructose

Grapes are used in the production of beer. True or false?

True

False

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Media for Industrial Fermentations
Questions: 15
Contributed by:
Ivan