Chhattisgarh PMT Chhattisgarh PMT Solved Paper-2004

  • question_answer
    Yeast is used in the formation of

    A)  ammonia                           

    B)  alcohol

    C)  curd                                     

    D)  petrol

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    In brewing industry, Brewer's yeast or beer yeast is Saccharomyces cerevisiae and wine yeast is Saccharomyces ellipsoidens. They perform alcoholic fermentation. \[\underset{\text{Glucose}}{\mathop{{{\text{C}}_{\text{6}}}{{\text{H}}_{\text{12}}}{{\text{O}}_{\text{6}}}}}\,\xrightarrow[\text{Zymase}]{\text{Yeast}}\underset{\begin{smallmatrix}  \text{Ehtyl} \\  \text{alcohol} \end{smallmatrix}}{\mathop{{{\text{C}}_{\text{2}}}{{\text{H}}_{\text{5}}}\text{OH+2C}{{\text{O}}_{\text{2}}}}}\,\] Fermentation is mainly of two types


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