Name: Microbes as Biopesticides
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 8 min 10 s
Description: The use of microbes like fungi, bacteria, yeast, and viruses as biocontrol agents and to enhance biodiversity, might sound strange! Let's know how these micr...

Question

Arrange the following in the decreasing order (most important first) of their importance. For the welfare of human society. Give reasons for your answer.

Biogas, penicillin, Citric acid and curd.

Accepted Answer

Penicillin was the first discovered Antibiotic. It has greatly improved the capacity to control deadly infections caused by bacteria.

Biogas is a renewable source of energy. It is inflammable in nature. The excreta (dung) of cattle, commonly called gobar, is used to produce biogas.

Citric acid is used as a food preservative.

Curd is a milk product obtained by the action of micro-organisms such as Lactobacillus and others, commonly called lactic acid bacteria (LAB), grow in milk, and convert it to curd.

The decreasing order of their importance for the welfare of human society is

Penicillin

Biogas

Citric acid

Curd

Arrange the following in the decreasing order (most important first) of their importance. For the welfare of human society. Give reasons for your answer.

Biogas, penicillin, Citric acid and curd.

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