Discuss the THREE main importance of Fungi as used in biotechnology.

      

Discuss the THREE main importance of Fungi as used in biotechnology.

  

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Jim
a)Produce 1 degree and 2 degree industrial metabolites.

1 degree metabolites.
End products of common metabolic pathways include; alcohol (ethanol), citric acid, itaconic acid.
2 degree metabolites:
-a diverse range of compounds that lack known obvious functions in the growth and reproduction of the organism.
-Produced after growth has stopped, when nutrients are limited, but excess carbon is available e.g. Penicillin, cephalosporins, griseofulvin, cyclosporin, ergot alkaloids

b)Well developed and understood secretory machinery: allow simple purification of products from
culture medium.

c)Relatively easily grown in mass culture and lots of
practice (alcoholic beverage industry).

d) Manipulability of Fungi makes them attractive to industry mainly in the following ways.
-Easy to grow, make mutants and do genetic crosses
-Molecular biology is well developed ie: transformation, gene replacement, regulated expression, total genome expression analysis, whole genome sequences are becoming available.
jim items answered the question on January 30, 2019 at 18:17


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