Microbes In Human Welfare

Question 1

Toddy is made from what and where?

Answer 1

Traditional drink of some parts of Southern India is made by fermenting sap palms.

Question 2

Roquefort cheese are ripened by which organism?

Answer 2

By growing a specific fungi on them

Question 3

Fleming was working on which bacteria when he discovered penicillin?

Answer 3

Staphylococci

Question 4

The full potential of penicillin as an antibiotic was established by whom and when?

Answer 4

Ernst Chain and Howard Florey during WW II

Question 5

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for penicillin and when?

Answer 5

Fleming, Chain and Florey in 1945

Question 6

Antibiotics are used to treat some deadly disease like?

Answer 6

Plague
Whooping cough( Kali Khasi) 
Diphtheria (Gal ghotu)
Leprosy ( Kusht rog)
Pneumonia

Question 7

Major component of waste water?

Answer 7

Human excreta

Question 8

Which ministry initiated the Ganga Action Plan and the Yamuna Action Plan?

Answer 8

The Ministry of Environment and Forests

Question 9

The technology of biogas production was developed in India mainly due to the efforts by which institutes?

Answer 9

Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)

Khadi And Village Industries Commission (KVIC)

Question 10

Trichoderma is free living or symbiotic?

Answer 10

Free living

Question 11

Ladybird are used to get rid of?

Answer 11

Aphids

Question 12

Dragonflies are used to get rid of?

Answer 12

Mosquitoes