GATE BT · 2020 · BT
Question 19: Engineering principles applied to biological systems
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Question 19
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The elemental composition of dry biomass of a yeast species is CH₁.₆O₀.₄N₀.₂S₀.₀₀₂₄P₀.₀₁₇. The contribution of carbon to the dry biomass is ____________% (round off to 2 decimal places).
[Given: atomic weights of H, C, N, O, P and S are 1, 12, 14, 16, 31 and 32, respectively]
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GATE BT 2020 · Paper 1
Biotechnology · Original paper archive
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- Biotechnology
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- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 1 mark
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