Egg And Meat(Microbiology > Poultry ) Questions and Answers

Question 1. The technique first described to determine the incipient spoilage in meat was
  1.    None of these
  2.    agar Plate Count (APC)
  3.    homogenate extract volume (HEV)
  4.    extract Release Volume (ERV)
Explanation:-
Answer: Option D. -> extract Release Volume (ERV)

Question 2. Molds causing spoilage of eggs include species of
  1.    Cladosporium
  2.    all of these
  3.    Thamnidium
  4.    Mucor
Explanation:-
Answer: Option B. -> all of these

Question 3. Vacuum packaged meats are spoiled by
  1.    Lactobacilli
  2.    Both (a) and (b)
  3.    B. thermosphacta
  4.    none of these
Explanation:-
Answer: Option B. -> Both (a) and (b)

Question 4. Which of the following is responsible for a musty or earthy flavor?
  1.    Pseudomonas syncyanea
  2.    both (a) and (b)
  3.    Actinomycetes
  4.    Flavobacterium
Explanation:-
Answer: Option C. -> Actinomycetes

Question 5. More spoilage of eggs is caused by
  1.    molds than bacteria
  2.    none of these
  3.    bacteria than molds
  4.    synergistically
Explanation:-
Answer: Option C. -> bacteria than molds

Question 6. The growth of Streptomyces on straw or elsewhere near the egg may produce
  1.    hay odour
  2.    musty or earthy flavors
  3.    cabbage-water flavor
  4.    fishy flavor
Explanation:-
Answer: Option B. -> musty or earthy flavors

Question 7. Pink rots in eggs is caused by the strains of
  1.    Pseudomonas fluorescens
  2.    species of Micrococcus or Bacillus
  3.    None of these
  4.    Pseudomonas
Explanation:-
Answer: Option D. -> Pseudomonas

Question 8. Beef hams are made spongy by species of
  1.    Bacillus
  2.    Rhodotorula
  3.    Pseudomonas
  4.    red Bacillus
Explanation:-
Answer: Option A. -> Bacillus

Question 9. Unopened, sliced bacon, packaged in material somewhat highly resistant to oxygen permeability, is spoiled mostly by
  1.    Micrococci
  2.    fecal Streptococci
  3.    Lactobacilli
  4.    molds
Explanation:-
Answer: Option C. -> Lactobacilli

Question 10. The red color of meat, called its bloom, may be changed to shades of green, brown or grey as a result of production of oxidizing compounds by bacteria. Which of the following species are reported to cause the greening of sausage?
  1.    Both (a) and (b)
  2.    Lactobacillus
  3.    Pseudomonas
  4.    Leuconostoc
Explanation:-
Answer: Option A. -> Both (a) and (b)