yeast
A mostly single-celled fungus; many yeasts reproduce by budding, and some are used in baking and fermentation.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, representative budding yeast (gjærsopp / yeast)
All languages
- English
- yeast
- Norwegian
- gjærsopp
- Japanese
- 酵母 — こうぼ — kōbo
- Korean
- 효모 — hyomo
- Spanish
- levadura
- French
- levure
- German
- Hefe
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Reference sources
- Store norske leksikon — gjærsopper are usually unicellular fungi, commonly oval or spherical and often reproducing by budding; Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a familiar example
- NCBI Bookshelf Medical Microbiology — yeasts grow as solitary cells and reproduce by budding through bud emergence, growth and separation
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae Morphological Database paper — budding yeast cells have a relatively simple ellipsoidal shape and bud size indicates cell-cycle stage