Biology

Microorganisms in Food Production

1,086 Questions

Microorganisms play a vital role in food production through processes like fermentation and bioprocessing. Questions on this topic cover the use of yeast, bacteria, and industrial microbiology. These concepts are important for science sections in various competitive exams.

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Microorganisms in Food Production Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Flavobacterium ammoniagenes

  2. Bacillus coagulans

  3. Penicillin decumbens

  4. Corynebacterium glutamicum

  5. Methylophylus methylotrophus

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This option is correct because microbial hydantoinase (HYD) is used for the commercial production of optically pure D- or L-active amino acids in biocatalysis. It has also been used for the production of D-amino acid intermediate compounds through stereospecific hydrolysis of chemically synthesised cyclic hydantoins. It is obtained from Flavobacterium ammoniagenes.

Multiple choice
  1. Glycolysis

  2. Pasteurisation

  3. Fermentation

  4. Krebs' cycle

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Fermentation is the anaerobic breakdown of glucose by yeast and some bacteria, producing ethanol and CO2. Glycolysis is only the first step, while the Krebs' cycle requires oxygen. Pasteurisation is a heat treatment process to kill microbes, not a metabolic process.

Multiple choice
  1. vacuum will result

  2. no change will occur

  3. gas pressure will develop because of excess of CO2

  4. gas pressure will develop because of excess of oxygen

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

During fermentation, yeast converts sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide gas. In a closed vessel, the CO2 accumulates and creates pressure since it cannot escape. The pressure is from excess CO2, not oxygen (which would actually be consumed in aerobic respiration).

Multiple choice
  1. Production of alcohol

  2. Production of wine

  3. Preparation of cheese

  4. Preparation of breads

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Yeast cells undergo anaerobic respiration and convert the grape sugar into alcohol. The process is known as fermentation. Also, they are used in baking industry to raise the volume of the products, but cheese preparation does not need an action of yeast.

Multiple choice
  1. Action of rhizobium inside the nodule.

  2. Cleaning up of wastes in water by microbes.

  3. Chemicals from one microbe being effective against a harmful microbe.

  4. Conversion of sugar into alcohol.

  5. Transmission of disease from one person to another by an insect.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Conversion of sugar into alcohol by the action of microbes is called fermentation.

Multiple choice
  1. Nitrogen fixation

  2. Moulding

  3. Fermentation

  4. Alcoholism

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Fermentation is the metabolic process where yeast or bacteria convert sugars (glucose) into alcohol (ethanol), carbon dioxide, and energy in the absence of oxygen. Nitrogen fixation is converting atmospheric nitrogen to usable forms, moulding is fungal growth, and alcoholism is a medical condition - none describe this biochemical conversion process.