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  1. Natural estrogens deactivated by……….

Glucuronidation

  1. Insect virus that causes over expression of genes in molecular biology-

Baculo virus

  1. Acute toxins

All

  1. By using recombinant technologies scientists are now producing

Insulin

  1. …………. are combustible materials, containing within themselves all oxygen needful for their combustion, which burn but do not explode, and function by producing gas which produces an explosion

Propellants or low explosives

  1. -------------are types of waste stabilization pond used for biological treatment of industrial and domestic wastewater

Facultative lagoon

  1. PAH-containing fractions, by animal test systems ….evidence have been obtained that PAH containing

skin painting,lung implantation)

  1. Pentane is utilized as a ……………in the preparation of phenol

foaming

  1. Polystyrene, as a propellant for aerosol sprays, as a filling of low- temperature----------------, and as reference compound in gas chromatography.

thermometers

  1. Herbicide resistant plants

pests

  1. Average temperature of ocean

1–3°C

  1. Which of ....does not use to make vessel of biofilters

may be formic sheet

  1. Which of the following is not fate of water
  2. Which of the following does not classify as a substitution material.------- other than those options) materials is a major potential avenue for the environmental biotechnology
  3. Which of the following statement about desulphurization of oil and coal is false-------
  4. Metals are released into the environment by all of the following except-

Earthquake

  1. When facultative pond receives raw sewage they are called ......ponds. primary pond
  2. Which of the following is not linked to biomagnifications
  3. ----------- is the presence of contamination in the environment which harm the environment.

Pollution · BT503 Environment Biotechnology · • MID TERM MCQs · • MID TERM GRAND QUIZ · MID · • QUIZ NO 01 · • QUIZ NO 02 · QUIZ · FINAL · ALL IN ONE MCQs · MID TERM MCQs

  1. Chlorinated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ( CL-PAHs) are group of compound with two or more aromatic rings and one or more --------- atoms are attatched to the ring system

Chlorine

  1. Making the compound more polar and easily cleared from the blood by the -----------.

Kidney

  1. Herbicide resistant plants ------------------
  2. -------- is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substance can damage an organism.

Toxicity

  1. -------- is the application of biotechnology for solving environmental problems.

Environmental biotechnology

  1. In the soil, a ----------has basically four possible destinations:

pollutant

  1. Bio substitution are: ……

1-Biofuels, 2-Polymers 3-Biodegradable

  1. A strain of Pseudomonas putrid known to----------

degrade PCBs

  1. The insect virus, …….., has been shown to be the method of choice for the over , expression of genes in many applications of ------------

Baculovirus. molecular bioliogy

  1. Methogenic constortio of over 100 bacterial clone with the capability to digest -----------,

terephthalate

  1. Insertion of foreign DNA in the vector resulting in the loss of the future

marker gene

  1. In the Inhofe tank, settling occurs in the upper compartment settling compartment.
  2. The septic tank can be a single-chamber tank or a two-compartment tank-----------------,

called an Inhofe tank

  1. For land base application soil type best suited to biotehnological intervention are

Sand and gravel

Q34. Which of the following is not linked to biomagnification --------------------- ?????????

  1. Which of the following is not fate of water ………
  2. Which of does not use to make vessel of biofilters ………

may be formic sheet

  1. Preliminary treatment involves the removal of coarse ……

solids only

  1. Attack by insect not only cause damage to the plant but also provide route …

for bacterial or fungal infection

  1. In the Inhofe tank, settling occurs in the upper compartment

settling compartment

  1. The septic tank can be a single-chamber tank or a two-compartment tank

called an Inhofe tank

  1. Why frogs are helpful as bioindicator--- Frogs are also Bioindicators; influenced by changes that take place in their freshwater and terrestrial habitats
  2. Which of the following is not linked to biomagnifications

…(other than those) • long-lived, • mobile, • soluble in fats, • biologically active

  1. Which of the following is not fate of water
  2. Which of does not use to make vessel of biofilters

may be formic sheet

  1. A strain of Pseudomonas putida known to -----------

degrade PCBs

  1. In the soil, a pollutant has basically -----------possible destinations: retention in the soil matrix, retention by the plants, appearance in the underground water and collection by underdrains

four

  1. In the Imhoff tank, settling occurs in the upper compartment

settling compartment

  1. septic tank can be a single-chamber tank or a two-compartment tank called

an Inhofe tanks

  1. -----------------which receive raw sewage is also known as primary ponds Facultative ponds
  2. A strain of ----------------putrid known to degrade PCBs

Pseudomonas

  1. Mere a gene is one of a ……involved in bacterial detoxification of mercury, and is the one coding for the enzyme, mercuric ion reeducates, which converts …….from an ionic to a…….

cluster of genes mercury volatile form

  1. ---------------- also known as microalgae, are similar to terrestrial plants in that they contain chlorophyll and require daylight to live and develop

Phytoplanktons

  1. ----------------are microscopic animals living near to the surface of the water body. They are poor swimmers, instead relying on tides and currents as a transport mechanism. They feed upon phytoplanktons, bacterioplanktons, or detritus (i.e. marine snow).

Zooplanktons

  1. The …..released in air by the processes of weathering, erosion and volcanic activity

metals

  1. The nature of the soil or water which harbors the …..can have a major effect on the actual expressed end-result.

pollution

  1. Bio filter consists of a relatively large vessel or container, typically made of cast concrete, metal or

durable plastic

  1. Wastewater is applied to the soil, supplying water and nutrients necessary for----- plant growth.
  2. Frog are bio indicator by…….

Change in fresh and terrestrial

  1. Na+/H+ antiport, …. …in opposite directions across a membrane

the transport of sodium and hydrogen ions

  1. Attack by insects is cause……

micrococcus lentos

  1. Fundamental requirements are …………….

all of given above

  1. Second strategy is usually …………………….

plasmid

  1. In the Inhofe tank, settling occurs in the

upper compartment

  1. Facultative ponds which receive raw sewage is also known as primary ponds…..

Retention by the plants

  1. Septic tanks are also a form of,,,,,,,,,, treatment

primary

  1. Due to continuous arrival of food in the form of BOD to the aeration tank, bacteria grow and reproduce continuously.

If an indefinite population growth

  1. Biological system may be used to clean up pollutants which of the following… attributes must be present in the pollutants.

It should be highly toxic

  1. Halophiles are extremely important in environment biotechnology these are microorganisms that survive in

Their cytoplasm contains a higher · concentration of solutes then · their surroundings

Glyphosate ( herbicide) is analyze of phosphenol pyruvate and inhibits the enzyme, the plants that gave the best result were --------.

Petunias

Lichens are used as bioindicators to monitor -------- quality.

Air

Microorganisms are now being used for the removal of pollutants from environment . all of the following statementsin this regards are true except-------.

The tolence degradation pathway and p-cumate

catabolic pathway are coded by genes present

on the same operon.

In bacteria genetic transfer of materials occurs through --------.

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