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प्रश्न
Unscramble the jumbled word underlined in the following statement.
Curbossulite is an air-borne disease caused by a bacterium.
उत्तर
Tuberculosis is an infectious air-borne disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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“Solving the problem of pollution is an effective way of environmental management” Justify the statement.
How the bread and other products produced using baker’s yeast are nutritious?
Microbes have the natural ability of decomposing the man-made chemicals.
Antibiotics cannot be obtained from a variety of bacteria and fungi.
Read the following paragraph and write the answers to the questions asked.
Sulphuric acid is present in the acid rain and materials coming out of mines. You know that erosion of metals present in statues, bridges and buildings occurs due to it. Sulphuric acid is a source of energy for some species of bacteria like Acidiphilium spp. and Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. Hence, these bacteria can control the soil pollution occurring due to acid rain. Water soluble salts of uranium are present in the wastes produced during electroplating and in effluent released in the environment from the atomic energy plant. Geobacter convert these salts of uranium into insoluble salts and thereby prevent those salts from mixing with groundwater sources.
- What causes metal erosion in statues, bridges and buildings?
- Sulphuric acid is the source of energy for which bacteria?
- What kind of pollution do these bacteria control?
- What are the water soluble salts in atomic energy plants and in the process of electroplating?
- Which bacteria prevent these salts from mixing with ground water by converting them Into insoluble salts?
How are microbes useful in the industry?
Baker’s yeast is ______.
Find odd one out:
Complete the following conceptual picture.
Complete the given paragraph by filling the blank spaces from the options given in the bracket:
[oxygen, pyridines, mechanical, CO2, petroleum, fatal, polyester, norcadia]
Spilling of ______ oil occurs in ocean due to various reasons. This oil may prove ______ and toxic to aquatic organisms. It is not easy to remove the oil layer from surface of water by ______ method. However, bacteria like pseudomonas spp. and Alcanovorax borkumensis have to ability to destroy the ______ and other chemicals. Hence, these bacteria are used to clear the oil spills. These are called as hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (HCB). HCB decompose the hydrocarbons and bring about the reaction of carbon with ______. ______ and water is formed in this process.
