Question

Give examples to prove that microbes release gases during metabolism.

Answer 1

The examples of bacteria that release gases during metabolism are:

(i) Puffing up of dough, all through making of dosa, idli or bread, is due to manufacturing of fuel produced all through the fermentation process. (ii) appearance of massive holes in "swiss cheese" is due to produced during fermentation by way of the bacterium Propionibacterium sharmanii. (iii) all through secondary remedy of sewage in sewage remedy plants, some of gases like methane, and are produced all through microbial digestion of natural compounds. (iv) Methanogens (e.g., Methanobacterium) gift inside the rumen of compound stomach of ruminants and dung of cattle are being utilized in biogas flowers to produce biogas as power source.