Microbes Role in Industrial Products MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
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EASYFor the commercial and industrial production of Citric Acid, which of the following microbes is used?
A good producer of citric acid is:
Which of the following is correctly matched for the product produced by them?
Yeast is used in the production of
Alcoholic beverages produced without distillation are
Ethanol is commercially produced through a particular species of:
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Microbes in Industrial Products: Fermented Beverages
- Microbes, especially yeasts have been used from time immemorial for the production of beverages like wine, beer, whisky, brandy or rum.
- For this purpose the same yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae used for bread-making and commonly called brewer’s yeast, is used for fermenting malted cereals and fruit juices, to produce ethanol.
- Depending on the type of the raw material used for fermentation and the type of processing (with or without distillation) different types of alcoholic drinks are obtained.
- Wine and beer are produced without distillation
- whisky, brandy and rum are produced by distillation of the fermented broth
- A number of other chemicals can be formed with the change of nutrient medium, pH and aeration: butanol, amyl alcohol, glycerol, pyruvic acid, succinic acid, lactic acid, etc.
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