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Find out the role of microbes in the following and discuss it with your teacher.
a. Single cell protein (SCP) b. Soil

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a. Single cell protein (SCP) is the protein extracted from cultivated microbial biomass. Edible mushrooms, yeast cells and blue green algae provide high protein resources with some medicinal effects. SCP are available in the forms of freash cells , dry cells, tablets or extracts.
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