Environmental Biotechnology

Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Environmental Biotechnology

Theory and Application
1. Introduction to Biotechnology - Answer (click here)
2. Role of Environmental Biotechnology - Answer (click here)
3. Scope for Use of Environmental Biotechnology - Answer (click here)
4. Market for Environmental Biotechnology - Answer (click here)
5. Modalities and local influences - Environmental Biotechnology - Answer
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Microbes and Metabolism

1. Microbes and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
2. Immobilisation, Degradation or Monitoring of Pollutants from a
Biological Origin - Answer (click here)
3. players - Microbes and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
4. Metabolism - Answer (click here)
5. Genetic blueprint for metabolic capability - Answer (click here)
6. Microbial diversity - Answer (click here)
7. Metabolic Pathways of Particular Relevance to Environmental
Biotechnology - Answer (click here)
8. Glycolysis: TCA and Glyoxalate cycle - Answer (click here)
9. Macromolecules - description and degradation - Answer (click here)
10. Production of Cellular Energy - Answer (click here)
11. Fermentation and respiration - Answer (click here)
12. Photosynthesis and the Basis of Phytotechnology - Answer (click here)
13. The light reactions - Answer (click here)
14. The dark reactions - Answer (click here)
15. The Nitrogen Cycle - Answer (click here)

Fundamentals of Biological Intervention

 1. Using Biological Systems - Biological Intervention - Answer (click here)
2. Extremophiles - Answer (click here)
3. Xenobiotics and Other Problematic Chemicals - Answer (click here)
4. Endocrine disrupters - Biological Intervention - Answer (click here)
5. New discoveries - Biological Intervention - Answer (click here)
6. Mobility of DNA - Answer (click here)

Pollution and Pollution Control

1. Classifying Pollution - Environmental Biotechnology - Answer (click here)
2. Pollution Environment - Answer (click here)
3. Dilution and dispersal - Pollution Control Strategies - Answer (click here)
4. Concentration and containment - Pollution Control Strategies - Answer
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5. Pollution Control Strategies - Answer (click here)
6. Practical Toxicity Issues - Answer (click here)
7. Practical Applications to Pollution Control - Answer (click here)
8. Biofilters - Practical Applications to Pollution Control - Answer (click here)
9. Biotrickling filters - Practical Applications to Pollution Control - Answer
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10. Bioscrubbers - Practical Applications to Pollution Control - Answer (click
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11. Other options - Practical Applications to Pollution Control - Answer (click
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12. ‘Clean’ Technology - Answer (click here)
13. process changes - Clean Technology - Answer (click here)
14. Biological Control - Clean Technology - Answer (click here)
15. Biosubstitutions - Clean Technology - Answer (click here)

Contaminated Land and Bioremediation

1. Contaminated Land and Bioremediation - Answer (click here)
2. Soil Remediation Methods - Answer (click here)
3. In Situ and Ex Situ Techniques - Answer (click here)
4. Intensive and Extensive Technologies - Answer (click here)
5. Process Integration - Answer (click here)
6. Suitability of Bioremediation - Answer (click here)
7. Factors Affecting the use of Bioremediation - Answer (click here)
8. Biotechnology Selection - Answer (click here)
9. Essential Features of Biological Treatment Systems - Answer (click here)
10. In situ techniques - Answer (click here)
11. Site monitoring for biotechnological applications - Answer (click here)
 12. Ex situ techniques - Answer (click here)
13. Process selection and integration - Contaminated Land and
Bioremediation - Answer (click here)
14. Use of remediation techniques - Answer (click here)

Aerobes and Effluents

1. Aerobes and Effluents - Answer (click here)
2. Sewage Treatment - Answer (click here)
3. Process Issues - Aerobes and Effluents - Answer (click here)
4. Land Spread - Sewage Treatment - Answer (click here)
5. Septic tank - Sewage Treatment - Answer (click here)
6. Limits to land application - Sewage Treatment - Answer (click here)
7. Nitrogenous Wastes - Answer (click here)
8. Aeration: Diffused air systems, Mechanical aeration - Answer (click here)
9. Trickling Filters - Answer (click here)
10. Activated Sludge Systems - Answer (click here)
11. Process disruption - Answer (click here)
12. Organic loadings - Aerobes and Effluents - Answer (click here)
13. Deep Shaft Process - Aerobes and Effluents - Answer (click here)
14. Pure Oxygen Systems - Answer (click here)
15. The Oxidation Ditch - Answer (click here)
16. Rotating Biological Contactor - Answer (click here)
17. Membrane Bioreactors - Answer (click here)
18. Cellulose Ion-Exchange Media - Answer (click here)
19. Sludge Disposal - Answer (click here)

Phytotechnology and Photosynthesis

1. Phytotechnology and Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
2. Terrestrial Phyto Systems (TPS) - Answer (click here)
3. Phytoextraction - Metal Phytoremediation - Answer (click here)
4. Hyperaccumulation - Metal Phytoremediation - Answer (click here)
5. Rhizofiltration - Metal Phytoremediation - Answer (click here)
6. Phytostabilisation - Metal Phytoremediation - Answer (click here)
7. Phytodegradation - Organic Phytoremediation - Answer (click here)
8. Rhizodegradation - Organic Phytoremediation - Answer (click here)
9. Phytovolatilisation - Organic Phytoremediation - Answer (click here)
10. Hydraulic Containment - Answer (click here)
11. Plant Selection - Hydraulic Containment - Answer (click here)
12. Applications of Phytotechnology - Answer (click here)
13. Aquatic Phyto-Systems (APS) - Answer (click here)
14. Macrophyte Treatment Systems (MaTS) - Answer (click here)
15. Nutrient Film Techniques (NFT) - Answer (click here)
16. Algal Treatment Systems (ATS) - Answer (click here)
17. Effluent treatment - Answer (click here)
18. Carbon sequestration - Answer (click here)
19. Pollution Detection - Answer (click here)

Biotechnology and Waste

1. Biotechnology and Waste - Answer (click here)
2. Nature of Biowaste - Answer (click here)
3. Composition of biowaste - Answer (click here)
4. Biological Waste Treatment - Answer (click here)
5. Composting - Answer (click here)
6. Applying Composting to Waste Management - Answer (click here)
7. Anaerobic Digestion and digestion process - Answer (click here)
8. Applying Anaerobic Digestion(AD) to Waste Management - Answer (click
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9. Process parameters - Anaerobic Digestion - Answer (click here)
10. Biogas - Answer (click here)
11. Other Biotechnologies - Answer (click here)
12. Annelidic conversion (AC) - Answer (click here)
13. Biowaste to ethanol - Answer (click here)
14. Eutrophic fermentation (EF) - Answer (click here)

Genetic Manipulation
1. Genetic Manipulation - Answer (click here)
2. Training: Manipulation of Bacteria Without Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
3. Manipulation of Bacteria by Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
4. Enzymes, solutions and equipment - Basic Principles of Genetic
Engineering - Answer (click here)
5. DNA for transfer - Basic Principles of Genetic Engineering - Answer (click
here)
6. Cloning vectors - Basic Principles of Genetic Engineering - Answer (click
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7. Expression vectors - Basic Principles of Genetic Engineering - Answer
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8. Reporter genes - Basic Principles of Genetic Engineering - Answer (click
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 9. Analysis of Recombinants: Bacteria, Yeast, Viruses - Answer (click here)
10. Transgenic Plants - Answer (click here)
11. Examples of developments in plant GE(Genetic Engineering) - Answer
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12. Integrated Environmental Biotechnology - Answer (click here)
13. Bioenergy - Answer (click here)
14. Methane biogas - Derived Biofuels - Answer (click here)
15. Ethanol fermentation - Derived Biofuels - Answer (click here)
16. Short rotation coppicing - Derived Biofuels - Answer (click here)
17. Biodiesel - Derived Biofuels - Answer (click here)
18. The carbon sink or energy crop question - Answer (click here)
19. Biotechnology Integrated Agricultural Applications - Answer (click here)
20. Plant disease suppression - Biotechnology Integrated Agricultural
Applications - Answer (click here)
21. Microbial pesticides - Biotechnology Integrated Agricultural
Applications - Answer (click here)
22. Plant/microbe interactions - Biotechnology Integrated Agricultural
Applications - Answer (click here)
23. Symbiotic nitrogen fixation - Biotechnology Integrated Agricultural
Applications - Answer (click here)
24. Endomycorrhizae - Answer (click here)
25. Plant pathogens: Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Cauliflower mosaic virus -
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