These little, bubbly guys help us make such perennial favorites as 'bread' and 'beer.' If you're saying to yourself "what is yeast, Alex," I got good news for you: you're right! Come learn about the microscopic fungus amung us on this week's Tangents!
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[Trivia Question]
Yeast mitotic arrest
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255140/
[Fact Off]
Stinking hellebore flower and yeast relationship
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871880/
Fruit fly and yeast relationship
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(14)00777-3
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196440
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4556146/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0300962983906011
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)00075-9
[Ask the Science Couch]
History of yeast
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/yeasts
https://books.google.com/books?id=gy_SAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228
https://books.google.com/books?id=XILwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72