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  2. Yeast - Wikipedia

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    Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a species of yeast ... Many proteins important in human biology were first discovered by studying their homologues in yeast; ...

  3. Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Wikipedia

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    Saccharomyces cerevisiae (/ ˌ s ɛr ə ˈ v ɪ s i. iː /) (brewer's yeast or baker's yeast) is a species of yeast (single-celled fungal microorganisms). The species has been instrumental in winemaking, baking, and brewing since ancient times. It is believed to have been originally isolated from the skin of grapes.

  4. Baker's yeast - Wikipedia

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    Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast commonly used as baker's yeast. Gradation marks are 1 μm apart.. Baker yeast is the common name for the strains of yeast commonly used in baking bread and other bakery products, serving as a leavening agent which causes the bread to rise (expand and become lighter and softer) by converting the fermentable sugars present in the dough into carbon dioxide and ...

  5. Saccharomyces - Wikipedia

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    Saccharomyces is a genus of fungi that includes many species of yeasts. Saccharomyces is from Greek σάκχαρον (sugar) and μύκης (fungus) and means sugar fungus.Many members of this genus are considered very important in food production where they are known as brewer's yeast, baker's yeast and sourdough starter among others.

  6. History of bread - Wikipedia

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    3 Yeast and oven in antiquity. 4 Americas. ... It was discovered early on that while bran- and wheatgerm-discarding milling process can help improve white flour's ...

  7. World's oldest beer discovered in Tasmania brought back to life

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    A bottle of the beverage discovered in the early 1990s amongst the treasures of Tasmania's 18th century Sydney Cove shipwreck has been determined to likely be the oldest beer known.

  8. Pachysolen tannophilus - Wikipedia

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    Pachysolen is a genus of yeast discovered from sulfite liquor by Boidin and Adzet (1957) and isolated by Wickerham (1970). [2]The genus is monotypic, containing the single species Pachysolen tannophilus, the first yeast identified to have a high capacity for production of ethanol from xylose.

  9. Yeast and E. coli can grow in conditions that might exist on ...

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    In an experiment involving sealed bottles and some very hardy microbes, scientists at MIT discovered that both yeast and E. coli can grow in an environment with an atmosphere composed purely of ...