Four different mutant lines showing similar phenotype were identified from a genetic screen. When genetic crosses among these mutants were carried out, the first mutant was found to complement the second, third and fourth mutant lines. However, no other complementation groups do the four mutant lines belongs to?

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#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

The quantity of heat required to evaporate 1 kg of a saturated liquid is called

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#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

A liquid stream is cooled from 80°C to 30°C in a double pipe heat exchanger as illustrated below: 

Fluid flowing counter currently with this stream is heated from 15°C to 30°C. Calculate the log mean temperature difference. 

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The main function of baffles in a bioreactor are

P. to prevent a vortex

Q. to increase aeration

R. to reduce interfacial area of oxygen transfer

S. to reduce aeration rate

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#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

A bacterial culture having a specific oxygen uptake rate of 5 mmol O2 (g DCW)⁻¹ h⁻¹ is being grown aerobically in a fed-batch reactor. The maximum value of the volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient is 0.18 s⁻¹ for the stirred tank bioreactor and the critical dissolved oxygen concentration is 20% of the saturation concentration (8 mg L⁻¹). The maximum density to which the cells can be grown in the fed-batch process, without the growth being limited by oxygen transfer, is approximately

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#Section 4: Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

For scaling up of a bioreactor, the following parameter is assumed to be constant

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Power number, also called Newton’s number, is defined as a dimensionless parameter relating to: