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Answer these five questions in no more than 200 words each.
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Question 1: Discuss why bioprocess engineers may want to genetically modify a living organism.
Question 2: Discuss the respective merits and limitations of batch, fed-batch, and continuous fermentation.
Question 3: Discuss the benefits and issues associated with the immobilization of enzymes involved in a biochemical process
Question 4: Discuss the issues associated with the scale up of a biological process.
Question 5: You are a project manager in a contract manufacturing organization. A client gives you a bacterial strain that expresses an enzyme that the client wants you to produce at a large scale (grams). The client also gives you a validated protocol to purify the protein. Denaturing gel electrophoresis shows that the enzyme is abundantly expressed by the bacteria you received from the client. However, your team cannot detect any enzymatic activity after applying the validated purification protocol to the biomass. How do you interpret this paradox and what can you do to increase the yield of your process?