What Would Most Likely Result If an Exponentially Growing Culture

question 44

Multiple Choice

What would most likely result if an exponentially growing culture of Lactobacillus spp. fermenting glucose was accidentally transferred into a highly aerated environment?

• A) Aerobic catabolism of glucose would begin rather than aerobic degradation, due to the presence of O₂.
• B) Fermentation of glucose would continue, because the cells are insensitive to O₂ despite lacking aerobic metabolism capabilities.
• C) The cells would halt their metabolism due to the presence of N₂, which acts as a global repressor of fermentation in this group.
• D) The population would die due to the presence of O₂, because it is a strict anaerobe.

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Definitions:

Substitution Effect

The change in consumption patterns due to a change in relative prices, leading consumers to replace more expensive items with cheaper alternatives.

Income Effect

The change in an individual's or economy's income and how that change will affect the quantity demanded of a good or service.

Substitution Effect

The change in consumption patterns due to a change in the relative prices of goods, making consumers substitute one good for another.

Normal Good

A Normal Good is a type of good for which demand increases when income increases, and vice versa, holding all other factors constant.