The growth of baker’s yeast (S. cerevisiae) on glucose may be simply described by the following equation:

In a batch reactor of volume 10^5 l, the final desired yeast concentration is 50 gdw/l. Using the above reaction stoichiometry, Determine the total amount of oxygen required?

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#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

1.0 timol of an enzyme that contains five active sites per molecule converts 1.0 pmol substrate every 2 microseconds. Calculate catalytic centre activity (sec^-1). ......10^5

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#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

.Which of the following graphs describes the relationship between [H3O+] and pH?

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#Section 6: Plant, Animal and Microbial Biotechnology

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#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Depolymerization of microtubules is inhibited by

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#Section 5: Bioprocess Engineering and Process Biotechnology

Stoichiometric equations are used to represent growth of microorganisms provided a ' molecular formula' for the cells is available. The molecular formula for biomass is obtained by measuring the amounts of C, N, H, O and other elements in cells. For a particular bacterial strain, the molecular formula was determined to be C4.4H7.30 1.2N0.86 . These bacteria are grown under aerobic conditions with hexadecane (C16H34) as substrate. The reaction equation describing growth is:

You have been put in charge of a small fermenter for growing the bacteria and aim to produce 2.5 kg of cells for inoculation of a pilot-scale reactor. What minimum amount of hexadecane substrate must be contained in your culture medium?