Q. Consider the following:
1. Bacteria
2. Fungi
3. Virus
Which of the above can be cultured in artificial/synthetic medium?
Why this Question) Commercial use of Bacteria and Fungi, also viruses in news.
Ans) a
Exp) Option a is correct.
Statement 1 is correct. Bacteria can be grown in synthetic culture media. Researchers a had rewritten the DNA of the bacteria Escherichia coli, fashioning a synthetic genome four times larger and far more complex than any previously created.
Statement 2 is correct. Fungi can be grown in synthetic culture media. Four allergologically important fungi, viz. Aspergillus fumigatus, Alternaria Penicillium notatum, and Cladosporium herbarum, were cultured in a pure synthetic medium.
Statement 3 is incorrect. Viruses lack metabolic machinery of their own and are totally dependent on their host cell for replication, they cannot be grown in synthetic culture media.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/science/synthetic-genome-bacteria.html
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1007019
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4091234/
Subject) Science