BASIC INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY Question Papers (Regular, 2004)

SET: 1

1. Explain what is biotechnology and enumerate the importance of biotechnology in industrial development.

2. Write down the importance of isolation of organisms for bio product production?

3. Define primary and secondary metabolites and give three examples of each describing the outlines of the metabolic route.

4. What are antibiotics? Give an account of the classification of antibiotics?

5. Write the importance of enzymes in economizing the industrial development?

6. Indicate the importance of feed back inhibition in bio product product production with examples?

7. Write an overview of importance of speciality agricultural products in different sectors of industrial biotechnology?

8. What is the importance of interferon in human health care and illustrate their production processes?

SET: 2

1. Describe the merits and demerits of biotechnological processes with respect to human beings?

2. Illustrate different culture preservation techniques and bring out the role of culture collection centers?

3. Describe the role of anaerobic fermentation process in the production of organic acids.

4. How streptomycin is produced biotechnologically? Give the flow sheet of streptomycin production by submerged culture method? Discuss the fermentation process involved.

5. Name different industrially useful enzymes, source of organisms and growth conditions?

6. Describe the role of mutations in development of industrially important organisms and give examples.

7. List out and describe some useful microbes that can be used as bio pesticides?

8. Give a detailed account on the production process of interferons?

SET: 3

1. Enumerate the role of different sectors of science in bioprocess development with examples.

2. Explain the basic principles of media formulation.

3. Give details of citric acid production pathway starting from glucose as substrate?

4. Bring out the role of vitamin B₁₂ in the metabolism? Describe the method of production by fermentation? What are the microorganisms used for its production.

5. Describe enzyme production by semisolid culture method and mention its advantages and disadvantages?

6. Briefly write detailed account on isolation of different mutants for industrial use.

7. Discuss the mode of action microbes or microbial metabolites as bio-pesticides.

8. Describe in detail on interferon downstream process and write brief note on the precautions to be taken during down stream processing.

SET: 4

1. Briefly write a overview of industrial fermentation process.

2. Give detailed account of principles of isolation of industrially important microorganisms.

3. Enumerate the importance of microbial species in organic acid production.

4. What are steroids and give examples? Describe the production of steroids using cholesterol as primary molecule using microbial species.

5. Enumerate the importance of submerged culturing of microbes for extracellular enzyme production. Give its merits and demerits.

6. Enumerate different feed back controls existing in various microbial systems.

7. Describe the importance of Bacillus species in bio-pesticide production and their mode of action in control of mosquitoes.

8. Give a detailed account on development of vaccines.