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  • Question
  • When a substance is added to a liquid medium which inhibits the growth of unwanted bacteria and favors the growth of wanted bacteria, it is known as


  • Options
  • A. differential medium
  • B. enriched medium
  • C. enrichment medium
  • D. selective medium

  • Correct Answer
  • enrichment medium 


  • More questions

    • 1. Which of the cause(s) has/have been suggested for the chill rings in sausage?

    • Options
    • A. Oxidation
    • B. Production of organic acids or reducing substances by bacteria
    • C. Excessive water
    • D. all of the above
    • Discuss
    • 2. What was the first eukaryotic chromosome to be sequenced?

    • Options
    • A. Yeast chromosome III
    • B. Yeast chromosome XI
    • C. Arabidopsis chromosome IV
    • D. None of these
    • Discuss
    • 3. Three stop codons, which aids in termination of translation are also known as

    • Options
    • A. pause codons
    • B. nonsense codons
    • C. missense codons
    • D. antisense codons
    • Discuss
    • 4. Which of the following organism has sterols in their cytoplasmic membrane?

    • Options
    • A. Clostridum
    • B. Proteus
    • C. Mycoplasma
    • D. Bacillius
    • Discuss
    • 5. In which of the following, lipo-polysaccharide is a major constituent of outer membrane of the cellwall?

    • Options
    • A. Gram-positive bacteria
    • B. Gram-negative bacteria
    • C. Fungi
    • D. None of these
    • Discuss
    • 6. Antigen binding sites of an immunoglobulin are located in

    • Options
    • A. light chain alone
    • B. heavy chain alone
    • C. Fc region of the antibody
    • D. Fab regions of the antibody
    • Discuss
    • 7. The role of the M cell is to

    • Options
    • A. trap virus in mucus and prevent entry
    • B. induce apoptosis in virus-infected small intestinal epithelia cells
    • C. pass bacteria or virus to underlying macrophages for processing and presentation of antigen
    • D. they use their cilia to propel mucus out of the small intestine
    • Discuss
    • 8. What is the action of tetracycline in prokaryotes?

    • Options
    • A. It blocks translocation reaction on ribosomes
    • B. It blocks peptidyl transferase reaction on ribosomes
    • C. It blocks the binding of amino-acyl tRNA to the A site of ribosomes
    • D. Not known with certainity
    • Discuss
    • 9. Holozoic nutrition is characterized by

    • Options
    • A. phagocytosis of solid nutrients and subsequent formation of phagocytic vacuoles
    • B. pinocytosis of solid nutrients and subsequent formation of phagocytic vacuoles
    • C. phagocytosis of soluble nutrients and subsequent formation of phagocytic vacuoles
    • D. photosynthesis
    • Discuss
    • 10. If the mash in the brewhouse is held too long it may undergo

    • Options
    • A. butyric acid fermentation
    • B. lactic acid fermentation
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. citric acid fermentation
    • Discuss


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