What are biofertilisers? A farmer is advised to add a culture of bacterium in the soil before sowing the crop. Name the bacterium in the culture. How is this bacterium useful to the crop?

Q: A genetically engineered microorganism used successfully in bioremediation of oil spills is of which…

A: A microorganism or microbe is a microscopic organism which may exist in its single-celled form or in…

Q: What is the purpose of this subculture procedure? In general, how is this carried out in tissue…

A: Introduction: Microbiology is the study of microbes that cause disease in humans, including their…

Q: Given its merits, why has advanced wastewatertreatment not been widely adopted?

A: Introduction: Advanced wastewater treatment has been used for a variety of purposes such as removing…

Q: tissue culture protocol for tomato.

A: TISSUE CULTURE PROTOCOL_ Tissue culture involves the use of small pieces of plant tissue (explants)…

Q: Why do you always provide control plants in doing pathogenicity test?

A: Any organism that is capable of causing an infection or disease is called a pathogen. Plants are…

Q: What microbe is used in bioremediation and why

A: Introduction: Bioremediation Is A Method Of Treating Contaminated Media, Such As Water, Soil, And…

Q: Which cultures would be suitable for the transduction experiment and why？ Which cultures would not…

A: Transduction is a process of gene transfer in bacteria, where bacterial DNA is transferred from one…

Q: The following media are used to grow bacteria for various purposes. Match the examples of media that…

A: MacConkey Agar: - Selective Growth Medium Malt Extract Agar:- Complex Medium

Q: Describe how you would execute this first stage from the point you are handed the nutrient broth…

A: For isolation of any culture, it needs to be incubated in broth to obtain full fledged turbidity or…

Q: Why is agar production more costly than carrageenan production

A: As there is difference is between other production and carrageenan production basically the key…

Q: What are biological control agents? How are biological control agents discovered? What makes them so…

A: Integrated pest management (IPM) is a sustainable pest management program that deals with pest…

Q: What would happen if an ampicillin reagent is added to an Lysogeny broth agar plate that is below 50…

A: Ampicillin is an antibiotic which enables the synthesis of the peptidoglycan of bacterial cells wall…

Q: Why is antifolate used as an anticancer agent?

A: Introduction Antifolates are a class of chemicals that are often used to treat cancer. They were one…

Q: Microbes can be used to decrease the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Explain how this…

A: Microbes include bacteria, archaea, virus, protists, and fungi play an important role in organic…

Q: To reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance due to heavy antibiotic use, it is important to…

A: Antibiotic resistance is defined as the resistance that the bacteria or microorganisms develop…

Q: What is a disease and why is it an important issue in aquaculture?

A: Introduction Aquaculture:- Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic animals or plants, including…

Q: A fastidious organism must be grown on what type of medium?a. general-purpose mediumb. differential…

A: Bacteria require appropriate environmental conditions for their growth. Solid or a liquid…

Q: Which body of the government of india regulates GM research and safety of introducing GM organisms…

A: Introduction  The major concern of the current century is the growing population and the increasing…

Q: While you were working on the oil spill problem, you received a report showing that the bacteria you…

A: The release of liquid petroleum hydrocarbons into the water bodies like oceans is known as oil…

Q: How many different ways can the ltters of " haircut" be arranged? This is a probabilty question.

A: We can use the simple permutation and combination, that is based on probability itself.

Q: Which of the following medium is considered an enriched medium? a. LB b. T-soy  c. Nutrient  d.…

A: A growth or culture medium is solid, liquid or semi solid in nature that is used to support the…

Q: How to use the sterile filter? Show the different sizes and specifications of sterile filters.

A: Sterilization is the method that is used to eliminate all forms of life and biological agents…

Q: Outline a method for preparation of tomato cell suspension culture and subculture

A: Cell culture is a procedure in which cells are grown under artificial conditions in suitable medium…

Q: What are all the methods used to isolate and purify a compound or protein from plant source.

A: If we are separating one or many components of the extracts we are isolating the…

Q: Where do spoilage microorganisms come from? What are some of the most common spoilage…

A: Food spoilage is a metabolic process which causes food to be undesirable or unacceptable for…

Q: How can you determine whether a culture or subculture is pure?

A: A pure culture can be defined as a population of cells or multicellular organisms growing in the…

Q: Microbes can be used to decrease the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides.Explain how this can…

A: Bio-fertilizers are cost effective and eco-friendly. Microbes can also act as bio-pesticides to…

Q: what does oxacillin resistant mean? how  the pathogen may have become oxacillin resistant

A: Oxacillin is a narrow spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic of penicillin class which is used to treat…

Q: What is selective and differential media? describe their purpose.

A: Numerous media types are employed in the study of microorganisms. The following definitions apply to…

Q: not more than five lines, outline a method for preparation of tomato cell suspension culture and…

A: 1. Callus: Plant callus in simple terms is a growing mass of unorganized parenchyma plant  cells…

Q: An agriculture extension agent is preparing pamphlets on prevent­ing the spread of disease. In the…

A: Disinfectants are antimicrobial substances that are applied to the surface of non-living objects to…

Q: Do you think that you will be able to determine the CFU’s in the food samples by counting the…

A: In order to maintain organisms or to ensure that subcultures from isolation plates are pure before…

Q: EMB and MSA results, build a dichotomous key that could differentiate between these four strains.

A: A dichotomous key is a representation of precise characteristics of organisms for the ease of their…

Q: What are the different types of Microbial Control

A: Microbial control agents are the biotically-derived chemical compounds or secondary metabolites that…

Q: Why do soil microbes naturally produce antibiotics?

A: Antibiotics are metabolic products of microorganisms that inhibit or completely destroy the growth…

Q: Write a detailed description of the following plate  1- blood Agar plate  2-PEa Agar Plate

A: An agar plate refers to a Petri dish containing an agar solidified growth medium which is meant for…

Q: Nutrient agar plates are inoculated alongside the Mannitol Salt or EMB agar plates because nutrient…

A: Nutrient Agar plates are inoculated alonside the mannitol Salt or EMB agar plate because nutrient…

Q: Describe the interactions of Agrobacterium tumefaciens with its host plant. Why is this plant…

A: Introduction: The bacterial pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a vital component in plant genetic…

Q: B A C

A: MacConkey Agar is a type of differential media and selective media. It used for detection,…

Q: Discuss either (a) how allelopathy contributes to the invasiveness of spotted knapweed or (b)

A: Allelopathy is the process by which one plant produces chemicals that affect the growth and survival…

Q: Using a batch culture method, the effects of 3 types of media on the growth of a plant suspension…

A: Different types of nutrient media used for growing plants in vitro.

Q: What is micropropogation? Mention its advantages.

A: With the advancement in science, scientists are creating new methods to create plants artificially…

Industrial Processes

Industrial processes result in the manufacturing of products (biological products, such as enzymes, medicine) on a large scale using different methods, such as physical and chemical procedures. Few products such as pharmaceuticals, agricultural products, food items, etc., involve microbes and their enzymes. Such processes are termed industrial biological processes. Microbiology and biotechnology enable us to utilize the ability of microorganisms to produce enzymes, primary metabolites, and secondary metabolites, which in turn help to produce the desired products.