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MCB 401 Industrial Microbiology

400 levelSciences10 topics

MCB 401 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Industrially important microorganisms and screening
  2. Strain improvement
  3. Fermentation media formulation
  4. Sterilisation and aseptic operation
  5. Bioreactor design and types of fermentation
  6. Production of antibiotics
  7. Alcohol and beverage production
  8. Production of organic acids and enzymes
  9. Single-cell protein production
  10. Downstream processing and product recovery

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Industrially important microorganisms and screening

This topic focuses on the groups of microorganisms that are valuable in industry and the methods used to find and select useful strains from nature or mixed populations. For the exam, you must know the major industrial microbes, the products or roles they are associated with, and the logic of primary and secondary screening used to identify the best producers.

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