OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
BIOTECHNOLOGY
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Question
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To produce industrial ethanol, one needs corn, water, and what?
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Sodium and Chlorine
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Vitamins and minerals
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Enzymes and yeast
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Gas and oil
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Background. Conventional corn dry-grind ethanol production process requires exogenous alpha and glucoamylases enzymes to breakdown starch into glucose, which is fermented to ethanol by yeast.
Detailed explanation-2: -The enzymes invertase and zymase are produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae and are responsible for the alcoholic fermentation of sucrose in which the final products are ethanol and CO2.
Detailed explanation-3: -enzyme complex involved in alcoholic fermentation is zymase.
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