BIOL 443 Questions with complete solution 2024/2025

BIOL 443 Questions with complete solution 2024/2025A company wants to know what microbe to use to produce a high amount of oil. Should they always use a microbe that is the highest oil producer? - correct answer No It is not enough to just pick an organism because it will behave differently based on its environment/nutrients. When cells are put under stress, some will increase their oil/fat content. The increase in stress and shift of resources to oil production, means the growth rate decreases. Thus, if you were to look at the amount of oil produced per gram of biomass, it may not be much more than other microbes you could choose. If the goal is to create biomass (entire cell), what is required? - correct answer to maintain: - high growth rate - composition of cell is desirable (whole cells are typically desirable because of their composition) the composition of a cell shifts depending on... - correct answer it's environment (or stresses to it caused by changes in environment conditions) if the goal is to create a primary metabolite, what is required? - correct answer - optimizatio