You are working with strains of Zymomonas mobilis to select the best strain for bioethanol production. You are trying to find the strain that requires the shortest time to grow. If the strains have the following growth rate constants, which would you choose to meet your criteria?
a. 0.5
b. 0.2
c. 1
d. 2
e. 3

Glucose, also called grape sugar, blood sugar or corn sugar, is among the simplest and one of the primary naturally occurring sugars. produced naturally by plants as the primary photosynthesis product, it is heavily used by living beings as a main energy source and is necessary for cellular respiration. chemically, it is a monosaccharide carbohydrate and serves as a building block for complex sugars like starch.