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What is Fermentation?
Fermentor cultivates microorganisms, producing food, biomedicine (vaccine, antibiotics), vitamin, enzyme, and insecticides. One of the most well-known applications of micro-organisms in industry is fermentation, where carbohydrates are converted into an acid or an alcohol.
Fermentation is mostly extracellular activity and is brought with the help of enzymes released by the microorganisms. Microorganisms, such as fungi, algae, bacteria, protozoa, are increasingly important to industry, where they are used in a huge variety of processes ranging from...