Nutrient medium is to be heated from 10⁰C to 28⁰C is a single-pass countercurrent shell-and-tube heat exchanger before being pumped into a fed-batch fermenter. Medium passes through the tubes of the exchanger; the shell-side fluid is water which enters with flow rate 3 x 10^4 kg h^- 1 and temperature 60⁰C pre-heated medium is required at a rate of 50 m^3 h^-1. The density, viscosity and heat capacity of the medium are the same as water; the thermal conductivity of the medium is 0.54 Wm^- 1 ⁰C ^- 1. It is proposed to use 30 steel tubes with inner diameter 5 cm; the tubes will be arranged in line. The pipe wall is 5-mm thick; the thermal conductivity of the metal is 50 Wm^- 1 ⁰C^ - 1. The maximum linear shell-side fluid velocity is estimated as 0.15 m s^-1. What tube length is required? ____________

#Question id: 2149

#Section 2: General Biology

A ligand-gated ion channel (such as the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor) is:

#Question id: 2150

#Section 2: General Biology

Which of the following increase(s) membrane fluidity?

#Question id: 2151

#Section 2: General Biology

Which of the following statement(s) is (are) true of transmembrane proteins?

a. All contain a hydrophobic α helix.

b. Some serve as membrane attachment sites for peripheral membrane proteins.

c. Some contain more than one membrane-spanning domain.

d. All are asymmetrically oriented in the lipid bilayer.

#Question id: 2152

#Section 2: General Biology

Precursors of membrane phospholipids are

a. soluble in the cytosol.                    

b. incorporated into biosynthetic intermediates.

c. sometimes complexed with fatty-acid-binding proteins.

d. stored in glycerolosomes.

e. sometimes activated by conjugation with CDP.

#Question id: 2153

#Section 2: General Biology

Membrane phospholipids include

a. cholesterol.            

b. plasmologens.        

c. sphingolipids.         

d. triglycerides.                      

e. bile acids.

#Question id: 2154

#Section 2: General Biology

Membrane lipids are distributed appropriately between the two leaflets of a given membrane by

a. dockases.    

b. trumpases.              

c. fatty acid desaturases.        

d. flippases.    

e. transmembrane tunnelases.