Big holes in Swiss cheese are made by a:

1.	a machine
2.	a bacterium that produces methane gas
3.	a bacterium producing a large amount of carbon dioxide
4.	a fungus that releases a lot of gases during its metabolic activities.

The vitamin whose content increases following the conversion of milk into curd by lactic acid bacteria is:

(1) Vitamin C

(2) Vitamin D

(3) Vitamin B12

(4) Vitamin E

Which one of the following alcoholic drinks is produced without distillation?

(1) Wine

(2) Whisky

(3) Rum

(4) Brandy

Match the following list of bacteria and their commercially important products:

Choose the correct match:

(1) (i) - b, (ii) - c, (iii) - d, (iv) - a

(2) (i) - b, (ii) - d, (iii) - c, (iv) - a

(3) (i) - d, (ii) - c, (iii) - b, (iv) - a

(4) (i) - d, (ii) - a, (iii) - c, (iv) - b

The residue left after methane production from cattle dung is:

1. burnt

2. burried in land fills

3. used as manure

4. used in civil construction

BOD of waste water is estimated by measuring the amount of:

(1) total inorganic matter

(2) biodegradable organic matter

(3) oxygen evolution

(4) oxygen consumption.

The free-living fungus Trichoderma can be used for:

1. killing insects

2. biological control of plant diseases

3. controlling butterfly caterpillars

4. producing antibiotics

The primary treatment of waste water involved the removal of:

(1) dissolved impurities

(2) stable substances

(3) toxic substances

(4) harmful bacteria.

Identify the incrrectly matched pair:

1. Trichoderma harzianum -  Biocontrol

2. Aspergillus niger  - source of citric acid

3. Baculovirus - narrow spectrum species specific insecticides

4. Monascus purpureus - source of cholesterol synthesizing enzyme

Identify the incorrectly matched pair