Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae:
Common name: "beer yeast".
Microorganism used as model in many fields of biology. The name is composed by two words in Greek an Latin: In Greek, saccharos means sugar and mykes means mushroom, but in a broder sense is understood as fungus. In Latin cerevis es beer.


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