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• n  used as a leaven in baking and brewing

• baker's yeast
• brewer's yeast
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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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