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    Microbes Role in Industrial Products MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

    Edited By admin | Updated on Sep 18, 2023 18:34 AM | #NEET

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    Yeast is used in the production of

    Alcoholic beverages produced without distillation are

    Ethanol is commercially produced through a particular species of:

    Which of the following is correctly matched to the product produced by them?

    Which of the following is an example of a non-distilled alcoholic beverage produced by yeast?

     

     

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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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