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Write short notes on the following.
(i) Brewer's yeast (ii) Ideonella sakaiensis (iii) Microbial fuel cells

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(a) Brewer .s yeast - Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a widely used fungal species in preparation & softening of bakery products like dough.
(b) Ideonella sakaiensis is a bacterium is used to recycle PET plastics . The enzyme PET ase and MHETase in the bacterium breakdown the PET plastics into terephthalic acis & ethylene glycol.
(c ) A microbial fuel cell is a bio - electrochemical system that drives an electric current by using bacteria and mimicking bacterial interaction found in nature . Microbial fuel cells work by allowing bacteria to oxidize and reduce organic molecules . Bacterial respiration is basically one big redox reaction in which electrons are being moved around . A MFC consists of an anode oxidize the organic fuel generating protons which pass through the membrane to the cathode and the electrons pass through the anode to the external circuit to generate current.
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