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  • Animal cell cultures do not have much effect on shear forces because


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  • A. the cell size is generally smaller than the critical eddy size at which shear will have an effect
  • B. cells are larger than the critical eddy size at which shear will have an effect
  • C. animal cells have cell walls
  • D. animal cells have cell membranes

  • Correct Answer
  • the cell size is generally smaller than the critical eddy size at which shear will have an effect 


  • More questions

    • 1. Vortexing in stirred tank reactors can be prevented by

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    • A. installing baffles in the reactor
    • B. shifting the impeller to an off-centre position
    • C. Both (a) and (b)
    • D. using axial flow impellers
    • Discuss
    • 2. Which pattern of mixing is preferred in stirred tank reactors during the culture of aerobic microorganisms?

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    • A. Laminar flow
    • B. Transient flow
    • C. turbulent flow
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 3. Which graphical method is used to determine an enzyme degree of cooperativity?

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    • A. Hill plot
    • B. Koshland curve
    • C. Michaelis-Menten hyperbola
    • D. Can not be determined
    • Discuss
    • 4. The rate limiting step in the movement of oxygen from the gas phase in a bubble to the cell is the movement of oxygen molecules through

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    • A. gas-liquid interface
    • B. bubble boundary layer
    • C. bulk liquid
    • D. gas phase
    • Discuss
    • 5. The heated medium passes through a holding section, which is usually maintained in

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    • A. adiabatic conditions
    • B. isothermal conditions
    • C. isotropic conditions
    • D. isobaric conditions
    • Discuss
    • 6. The equation for the rate of product formation for simple enzyme reaction is given by (Where rmax, maximum reaction rate, Cs substrate concentration, Cp product concentration ES, CES enzyme-substrate concentration)

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    • A. rp = rmax Cs/(Km+Cs)
    • B. rp= rmax CES/(Km+ CES)
    • C. rp = rmax Cs/(Km+CES)
    • D. rp = rmax Cs/(Km+Cp)
    • Discuss
    • 7. Chymosin hydrolyses the bond between

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    • A. Alanine and glycine
    • B. Phenyl alanine and methonine
    • C. Glutamic acid and alanine
    • D. Alanine and phenyl alanine
    • Discuss
    • 8. Reynolds (Rei) number for the impeller is given by (where Di, stirrer diameter; N, stirrer speed, ?, density of fluid and ?, viscosity of fluid)

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    • A. DiV?/?
    • B. Di2N?/?
    • C. Di2V?/?
    • D. DiN? /?
    • Discuss
    • 9. A fed-batch reactor containing 2 litre of medium and 0.1 g.l-l of biomass is fed with a medium containing 1 g.l-1 of substrate at 1 litre per hour. If after 10 hours, the concentration of biomass in the reactor was 0.2 g.l-1, then the biomass produced during the 10 hour period is

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    • A. 1.5 g
    • B. 2.2 g
    • C. 3.0 g
    • D. 6.0 g
    • Discuss
    • 10. Zeolite used in zeolite softening process for the treatment of hard water gets exhausted after certain time of usage but can be regenerated by flushing it with

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    • A. 10% calcium chloride solution
    • B. 10% magnesium sulfate solution
    • C. 10% magnesium chloride solution
    • D. 10% sodium chloride solution
    • Discuss


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