Liquid from a brewery fermenter can be considered to contain 10% ethanol and 90% water. 50000 kg h-1 of this fermentation product are pumped to a distillation column on the factory site. Under current operating conditions a distillate of 45% ethanol and 55% water is produced from the top of the column at a rate one-tenth that of the feed.

 What is the composition of the waste 'bottoms' from the still?

#Question id: 5239

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Which of the following statements is not true for Hfr strains of E. coli ?

#Question id: 5240

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

If bacteria grow in the presence of a large amount of DNase, which of the following recombination process completely inhibited?

#Question id: 5241

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Genes a, b, and c are widely spaced in the bacterial genome. Transducing phage from an a+ b+ c+ bacterium were used to infect a culture of a- b- c- cells, and b+ transductants were selected. Which of the following best describes the predicted genotypes of these transductants?

#Question id: 5242

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Auxotrohic bacteria plating on different medium, it is observed that colonies grow on minimal plus threonine only, no colony on minimal plus leucine and no colonies grow on minimal medium cystein only. What are the actual genotypes of auxotroph?

#Question id: 5243

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Auxotroph culture (His- and Lac-) culture of E. coli was mutagenised. On what media would one spread the mutagenised cells to select prototroph for both His+  and Lac+ cells?

#Question id: 5244

#Section 3: Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Biology

Transformation can used to map bacterial gene, which of the following statement is correct?