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  • n  single-celled yeasts that reproduce asexually by budding; used to ferment carbohydrates

  • Zeiss microscope makers of Jena showed a cinema reel of unicellular lifeisolated bacterium pneumococcus (pneumonia), bacterium streptococcus (pus), saccharomyces (yeast).
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  • S. cerevisiae: Friendly to us, but…
    Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the friendliest microbes around. The good, old, familiar yeast used for (nearly all) bread, ale (lager yeast are different), (nearly all) wine, saké’s second (alcoholic) fermentation, and an improbable array of industrial applications: making CO2 … Continue reading ?
    Dec. 6, 2013 - seattlepi.com

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