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8.Microbes in Human Welfare
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Which one of the following is a wrong matching of a microbe and its industrial product, while the remaining three are correct?
A
Yeast -statins
B
Acetobacter aceti -acetic acid
C
Clostridium butylicum -lactic acid
D
Aspergillus niger -citric acid
(AIPMT-2011)
Solution
(c) : Microbes are used for commercial and industrial production of certain chemicals like organic acids, alcohols and enzymes. Examples of acid producers are Aspergillus niger (a fungus) of citric acid, Acetobacter aceti (a bacterium) of acetic acid; Clostridium butylicum (a bacterium) of butyric acid and Lactobacillus (a bacterium) of lactic acid.
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