Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
The kingdom is fungi. The phylum is ascomycota. The class is hemiascomycetes. The order is saccharomycetales. The family is saccharomycetaceae. The genus is saccharomyces. Another name for it is baker's or brewer's yeast. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is used in making a lot of different foods. Some of them are wines and beers (which are both BAD). It is also used to create enzymes and pharmaceuticals. Most yeasts including saccharomyces reproduce by budding. The daughter cells bud off of a small pore in the side of the mother cell. Sometimes the buds do not completely split off from the mother cells, and chains of yeast cells can be formed. It is the world’s most important yeast. Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been a very useful fungus for humans for many millennia. When you make bread the carbon dioxide is the most important product. It allows the yeast to rise. Alcohol is also created, but it evaporates away very fast. When you make wine and beer the alcohol is the important product, even though the carbon dioxide may be used in beer and champagne. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is used in both, but different types of the fungus are used in each. The type that is used in bread making is used because it makes more carbon dioxide and a lot less alcohol. But for the type that is used in alcohol making, it is the opposite. There is less carbon dioxide, and much more alcohol. But it is not only being useful in brewers, it is developed into a unique system for biological research. Yeast is a simple unicellular eukaryote. This fungus provides a highly useable system to study basic processes that are used by many other advanced eukaryotes including humans. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the major organisms for understanding cellular and molecular processes in eukaryotes. The genome for saccharomyces cerevisiae is always put together in about 16 chromosomes. The entire genome of this fungus has been put together and it has...