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Earn 100

Name any two antibiotics and their microbial source.

Important Questions on Microbes in Human Welfare

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What are antibiotics? Name two microorganisms used to produce antibiotics.
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Give microbial source of the following products in industrial production:

Pectinase

EASY

Give microbial source of the following products in industrial production:

Chloromycetin

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Assertion (A): The foolish seedling disease in rice seedlings is caused by a fungal pathogen, Gibberella fuzikuroi.

Reason (R): E. Kurosawa reported the appearance of symptoms of the disease in uninfected rice seedlings when they were treated with sterile filtrates of the fungus and the active principle was identified as gibberellic acid.

The correct answer is:

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What are antibiotics? Name the organism from which penicillin was first extracted.
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Give microbial source of the following products in industrial production:

Vitamin B12

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Which ONE of the following statements is CORRECT about the mechanism of action of penicillin?
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The set of commercial and industrial products of non-bacterial origin
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Which one of the following microbial product is called "clot " buster?
HARD
 This entry in the table is wrongly matched, identify.
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Match Column-I with Column-II and select the correct option using the codes given below :
 
Column–I Column–II
a. Citric acid (i) Trichoderma
b. Cyclosporin A (ii) Clostridium
c. Statins (iii) Aspergillus
d. Butyric acid (iv) Monascus
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Name the plant growth regulator which upon spraying on sugarcane crop, increases the length of stem, thus increasing the yield of sugarcane crop.
EASY
A patient brought to a hospital with myocardial infarction is normally immediately given
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Match the following

  Column - I   Column - II
i. Cyclosporin-A a. Clot busters
ii. Streptokinase b. Antibiotic
iii. Statins c. Immunosuppressive agent
iv. Penicillin d. Blood cholesterol lowering agent
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The growth hormone used in breaking dormancy and inducing flowering is ______.
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Name the strain of yeast used in industrial production of wine.
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Which of the following is correctly matched for the product produced by them?
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Which of the following is wrongly matched in the given table?