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What Are the Different Isolation and Screening Techniques?

Esther Susan

Esther Susan

Updated on 10-May-2023 15:00:51

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Introduction Isolation is a process of separating individual bacteria to study their morphology or for industrial purposes. The process of isolating and screening a microbe out of natural surroundings, such as soil, which has a substantial microbial population, is a costly and lengthy process. For instance, Eli Lilly & ... Read More

What Are the Differences Between Primary and Secondary Metabolites?

Esther Susan

Esther Susan

Updated on 10-May-2023 14:55:02

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Introduction Primary metabolites are the first byproducts produced by a living organism during its growth. Secondary metabolites are metabolites that support a variety of biological processes but are not involved in cellular growth and maintenance. The primary metabolites are intimately involved in primary growth, development, and reproduction, whereas secondary metabolites ... Read More

What are Secondary Metabolites?

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Esther Susan

Updated on 10-May-2023 14:52:03

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Introduction Secondary metabolites are organic compounds produced by any life form, such as bacteria, fungi, animals, or plants. They are also known as bioactive molecules, toxins, secondary products, or natural products. Albrecht Kossel, who won the (1910) Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine, is known to have invented the phrase ... Read More

What are Primary Metabolites?

Esther Susan

Esther Susan

Updated on 10-May-2023 14:46:19

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Introduction A metabolite is an intermediate or final result of metabolism in biochemistry. Small molecules that act in the catalytic activity on their own often as a cofactor to an enzyme, in defense, and interactions with other organisms are just a few of the many roles that metabolites play example- ... Read More

Strategies for the Development of Industrial Microbial Strains

Esther Susan

Esther Susan

Updated on 10-May-2023 14:23:33

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Introduction The only aspect of managing the fermentation process is strain improvement. It is the process of enhancing or selecting a phenotype in order to increase a microorganism's productivity. To put it another way, it involves getting a strain of microbes to create more of the metabolites or enzymes we ... Read More

Role of Microbial Enzymes in Various Industrial Processes

Esther Susan

Esther Susan

Updated on 10-May-2023 14:19:26

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Introduction Many different areas of the food industry, including dairy, baking, food processing and packaging, animal feed, fruit and vegetable juice, beverages, oil refinery, and confectionery, have found a use for microbial enzymes. Microorganisms are preferred sources for industrial enzymes because they are readily available and have a rapid rate ... Read More

Principles of Bacteriology and Virology

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Esther Susan

Updated on 10-May-2023 13:13:47

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Introduction A Branch of microbiology dealing with the study of bacteria is called bacteriology. Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses. The beginning of bacteriology and the invention of the microscope happened simultaneously. The Dutch biologist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who reported certain animalcules, as they were then called, ... Read More

Microbial Enzymes and Their Uses

Esther Susan

Esther Susan

Updated on 10-May-2023 13:11:00

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Microbial enzymes have so many uses in a wide range of industries (including the textile, leather, paper and pulp, research and development, pharmaceutical, agricultural, detergent, waste, and bio-refineries, as well as the photography and food industries), they are crucial to many industrial production processes. Introduction As enzymes are environmentally neutral ... Read More

Food Technology and Nutrigenomics

Esther Susan

Esther Susan

Updated on 10-May-2023 12:56:39

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Introduction Simply, nutrigenomic defines how the diet acts on genes and changes gene expression which is commonly prominent in cancer like non-communicable diseases. The usage of food science in the selection, preservation, processing, packaging, and distribution, is known as food technology. Early studies in food technology were ... Read More

Bacterial Antibiotics: An Overview

Esther Susan

Esther Susan

Updated on 10-May-2023 12:52:34

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Certainly, you must have used an antibiotic medication at least once during your life. One of the most widely used and significant classes of medications.Antibiotics are used to treat everything from severe ear infections or strep throat in children to burning UTIs or itching skin infections in adults. Some antibiotics ... Read More

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