Phagocytosis

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#Question id: 13064

#Part-A Aptitude & General Biotechnology

Optimisation of a PCR reaction is often a compromise between the competing demands for precision, efficiency and yield. Although the specific effects may vary, generally, increasing the annealing temperature will increase non-specific primer binding and reduce precision. Increasing the length of the elongation phase will reduce the proportion of incomplete newly-synthesised strands and therefore increase yield. In this case, the potential effect on efficiency is unclear. Increasing the elongation phase would increase the reaction time, but the time taken to ramp down to a lower annealing temperature would be reduced.

Which of the following techniques doesn’t involve use of a secondary antibody?

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#Question id: 14268

#Part-B Specialized Branches in Biotechnology

An activated-sludge waste treatment system is required to reduce the amount of BOD₅ from 1000 mg/l to 20 mg/l at the exit. The sedimentation unit concentrates biomass by a factor of 3. Kinetic parameters are µ_m = 0.2 h-1 , K_s = 80 mg/l, k_d = 0.01 h-1 , and Y ^M _X/S = 0.5 g MLVSS/g BOD₅. The flow of waste water is 10000 l/h and the size of the treatment basin is 50,000 l. What is the value of the solids residence time?

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#Question id: 10615

#Part-B Specialized Branches in Biotechnology

The population size of a bird increased from 600 to 700 in one year. If the per capita birth rate of this population is 0.50, what is its per capita death rate?

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#Question id: 936

#Part-A Aptitude & General Biotechnology

At neutral pH, the main ionic form of ammonia is ________.

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#Question id: 12919

#Part-A Aptitude & General Biotechnology

Which of the following statement is not correct about RT-PCR.