Question

All the constituents of medium are excess in _______

(a) Chemostat

(b) Turbidostat

(c) Batch culture

(d) Fed-Batch culture

This question was addressed to me in unit test.

I need to ask this question from Microbial Growth Kinetics in chapter Microbial Growth Kinetics of Fermentation Technology

Answer 1

Correct answer is (a) Chemostat

The explanation is: In the continuous culture all the constituents of the medium are in excess in the chemostat. The batch and the fed-batch culture contains a limited amount of nutrients in the medium.