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Microbes at Work: Production of an Antibiotic Objective: To use a fermenter to produce the antibiotic bacitracin using Bacillus licheniformis. Data: (attached) Pre-Lab Questions: 1. Fermentation is using an organism to produce a useful product. 2. Agricultural, environmental and medical. 3. A genetically engineered organism is an organism who’s DNA has been purposely changed to change the type or amount of proteins an organism produces. 4. An anti-biotic is a medicine that physicians prescribe because the attack bacterial infections, although they don’t affect viral infections. 5. Bacitracin is an anti-biotic produced by an organism of the Bacillus subtilis group. It acts as a cell wall inhibitor. 6. “Bacitracin” was named after the first patient it was used on, Tracy. 7. A bacterial cell enters a sporolation phase when the carbon source or some other required nutrient becomes limited. 8. The fermenter apparatus must be sterilize