Question

Co-metabolism is a process in which contaminants is again taken up by the microorganisms and is used as a food source.

(a) True

(b) False

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This question is from Microbial Transformations of Pesticides topic in section Microbial Transformations of Pesticides of Environmental Biotechnology

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) False

The explanation is: Co-metabolism is a process in which contaminants is again taken up by the microorganisms but is not used as a food source second time. It also refers to as degradation of two compounds together, but the second process in dependent on the first process.