Biochemical Engineering MCQ

Q1. What is the main aim of biochemical engineering?

Q2. Which equipment maintains sterility during fermentation?

Q3. The ideal chemostat maintains:

Q4. Batch culture can be described as:

Q5. A fed-batch process is useful for:

Q6. The basic unit of protein is:

Q7. Cell disruption is required for:

Q8. The Luedeking-Piret model predicts:

Q9. Immobilized enzymes are frequently used in:

Q10. In a chemostat, dilution rate is:

Q11. What is the main advantage of continuous culture?

Q12. Which organism is most used for industrial ethanol fermentation?

Q13. pH control in fermentation often uses:

Q14. A bioreactor’s impeller is used for:

Q15. Downstream processing mainly involves:

Q16. Michaelis-Menten kinetics describes:

Q17. Specific growth rate (μ) is:

Q18. The log phase of microbial growth represents:

Q19. A limiting substrate is:

Q20. Perfusion bioreactor keeps:

Q21. Membrane bioreactors allow:

Q22. A common vector for genetic engineering is:

Q23. Enzyme inhibition that is reversed by increasing substrate concentration is:

Q24. Fed-batch reactors are typically used to:

Q25. Diauxic growth refers to:

Q26. Bioreactor baffles are used for:

Q27. Process used to break cells via rapid pressure drop is:

Q28. Bulk oxygen transfer in a fermenter is measured by:

Q29. The term “metabolic flux” explains:

Q30. Microbial cell factories are systems that:

Q31. Enzyme denaturation typically results from:

Q32. Continuous sterilizers in industry often use:

Q33. The effectiveness factor of an immobilized enzyme reflects:

Q34. The first commercial genetically engineered drug was:

Q35. Metabolic engineering involves:

Q36. In fermentation, lag phase is characterized by:

Q37. The major advantage of using immobilized cells is:

Q38. The Lineweaver-Burk plot is used to:

Q39. Trickling filters are mainly used for:

Q40. Which organism is commonly used to produce single cell protein?