Biology Report: Plants: Baker's Yeast By Sterling Haws 1. What Is Yeast? Yeast is simple fungus. The term "yeast" refers more to a life-style than to a phylogenetic classification. Yeast refers to the unicellular phase of the life cycles of many different fungi, but it is used more commonly as a generic term for fungi that have only a unicellular phase. The organisms most often called "yeast" such as common baking or brewing yeast are strains …showed first 75 words of 755 total…

…showed last 75 words of 755 total…homologous chromosomes in the diploid nucleus interchange parts and are distributed into the haploid nuclei yielding new combinations of genetic traits. In higher organisms a germ-cell line is differentiated from the body cells. The germ-cell line produces the reproductive cells that form the gametes. The gametes are the cells, which carry the genetic information to the next generation while the somatic cells form the rest of the organism and play no direct role in heredity.