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Yeast

Definition

noun, plural: yeasts

Colloquial name for the fungus that is characteristically single-celled most of its life, eukaryotic, reproduce asexually by budding or binary fission, produce ascospores, capable of fermenting carbohydrates.


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Yeasts are important organism for their metabolic products used in the production of alcohol, wine, fruit juices, and leavening agent.

Important yeasts include Saccharomyces cerevisiae that has been used commercially and Candida albicans that is an opportunistic pathogen in humans.


Word origin: Middle English yeest, from Old English gist

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You see, that's exactly were will you use the unspecific primers. Since we don't know the similarities between human and yeast cdcs, it's little hard to make any conclusion, but probably the plant cdc is the most distant one.

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by JackBean
Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:47 pm
 
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Topic: Data analysis: DNA alignment HELP?
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Curious about these fungi.

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