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Microbes in Human Welfare · Question 37

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1

Read the following statement having two blanks (A and B): “A drug used for (A) patients is obtained from a species of the organism (B) .” The one correct option for the two blanks is:

  1. A Organ-transplant, B Trichoderma
  2. A AIDS, B Pseudomonas
  3. A Swine flu, B Monascus
  4. A Heart, B Penicillium

Answer

(1) A Organ-transplant, B Trichoderma

Solution

As per NCERT, cyclosporin A, which is used as an immunosuppressive agent in organ-transplant patients, is produced by the fungus Trichoderma polysporum.

⇒ A = Organ-transplant, B = Trichoderma.

Statins from Monascus purpureus lower blood cholesterol, and Penicillium gives the antibiotic penicillin; neither is related to swine flu or AIDS as given.

Answer: (1)

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2

Consider the following statements (A-D) about organic farming. Which of these statements are correct?

  1. (B) and (C) only
  2. (B), (C) and (D)
  3. (C) and (D) only
  4. (A) and (B) only
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3

Which one of the following is a wrong matching of a microbe and its industrial product, while the remaining three are correct?

  1. Acetobacter aceti – acetic acid
  2. Clostridium butylicum – lactic acid
  3. Aspergillus niger – citric acid
  4. Yeast – statins
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4

The most common substrate used in distilleries for the production of ethanol is :

  1. Ground gram
  2. Molasses
  3. Soyabean
  4. Corn meal
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5

Which one of the following is not a biofertilizer ?

  1. Agrobacterium
  2. Nostoc
  3. Rhizobium
  4. Mycorrhiza
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6

Secondary sewage treatment is mainly a :

  1. Mechanical process
  2. Chemical process
  3. Biological process
  4. Physical process
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7

Which of the following is mainly produced by the activity of anaerobic bacteria on sewage ?

  1. Propane
  2. Mustard gas
  3. Marsh gas
  4. Laughing gas
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8

An organism used as a Biofertilizer for raising soyabean crop is :

  1. Azotobacter
  2. Azospirillum
  3. Nostoc
  4. Rhizobium
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9

Ethanol is commercially produced through a particular species of :

  1. Clostridium
  2. Trichoderma
  3. Aspergillus
  4. Saccharomyces
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10

Continuous addition of sugars in 'fed batch' fermentation is done to :

  1. obtain antibiotics
  2. produce methane
  3. purify enzymes
  4. degrade sewage
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11

Organisms called Methanogens are most abundant in a :

  1. Polluted stream
  2. Hot spring
  3. Cattle yard
  4. Sulphur rock
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