Saccharomyces cerevisiae

High school (ages 12+)
Food & Cooking

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/saccharomyces-cerevisiae

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the scientific name?Saccharomyces cerevisiae
2. What is the cell type?Eukaryotic fungus
3. How does it make bread rise?It eats sugars and releases carbon dioxide gas, which makes the dough puff up.
4. Why does it make alcohol in beer and wine?When oxygen is low, it ferments sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide, giving drinks their alcohol.

Eukaryotic: An organism whose cells contain a nucleus and other organelles.
Biotechnology: The use of living organisms or their products to develop new technologies.
Model organism: A non-human species studied to understand biological processes, with applications to other organisms.
Recombinant protein: A protein produced by genetically engineered organisms.