a) Food Products such as;
• Breads, yogurts, cheeses.
• Beer, wines, champagnes, liquors.
b) Fermentation – process of deriving energy from sugars in the absence of oxygen i.e.
• Lactic acid fermentation.
• Alcohol fermentation.
c)Antibiotics.
• Produced by microbes that inhibit the growth of other microbes.
• 1928 discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming.
• Majority are produced by bacteria, and inhibit the growth of other bacteria.
d)Therapeutic Proteins.
• Bacteria are used to produce medically important proteins.For example, insulin.
e)Field Applications such as:
1. Degradation of waste products.
2. Bioremediation of polluted environments.
3. 1987 Steven Lindow at University of California.
• Creation of ?ice-minus? bacteria would provide protection of crops from frost.
4. Genetically altered strain of bacteria that would protect plants against root-eating insects on cotton and corn.
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