Essays Tagged: "Saccharomyces cerevisiae"

Biology Report of Fungus: Baker's Yeast

ganisms most often called "yeast" such as common baking or brewing yeast are strains of the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae. As fungi, they are classified as ascomycetes, a group which also includes ... a. Except when we refer to other species of yeast by name, we will use the term "yeast" to refer to Saccharomyces cerevisiae.Yeast has simple nutritional needs. Unable to carry out photosynthesis, the ...

(3 pages) 46 0 3.7 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Root Beer

d, fermenting wine and brewing beer etc. The products of the fermentation of sugar by baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide causes bread to rise a ...

(1 pages) 58 4 3.4 Dec/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biochemistry

Gluten content, gas retention and physical properties of starch in selected flours

bon dioxide in baking can be produced biologically or chemically. For this experiment we use Yeast (Saccharomyces Cerevisiae), a biological method. As yeast ferments sugar it produces carbon dioxide. ...

(7 pages) 45 0 0.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Importance of fungi and their use in genomics

resent, with only recent developments made for instance in 1996 the work published on the genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Goffeau et al. 1996).As a result the dawn of a new genre in human disease ... an hosts {infection and immunity book page 169}.Examples of such pathogens are Candida Albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, both of which are facultative parasite (4) also called protozoan parasite ...

(10 pages) 26 0 4.3 Feb/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Ginger beer -temperature vs. alcohol content

our basic ingredients--water, malt, hops (flowers of the Humulus lupulus plant), and brewing yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)--initiate myriad biological and chemical processes, including enzymatic di ...

(9 pages) 19 0 0.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Genome Sequencing

coccus jannaschii finished 1996 Synechocystis sp. finished 1996 Mycoplasma pneumoniae finished 1996 Saccharomyces cerevisiae finished 1997 Helicobacter pylori finished 1997 Escherichia coli finished 1 ...

(7 pages) 13 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Chemical Analysis on Winemaking

entation of reducing sugars, pH, alcohol production, specific gravity and free sulphur dioxide with Saccharomyces Cerevisiae were investigated. Reducing sugar is proportional and related to alcohol pr ... se → ethanol + carbon dioxide + energyThe cultured yeasts commonly used in wine making are the Saccharomyces cerevisiae species, which respire anaerobically. (Winemaking, 2009.) However, the yeas ...

(15 pages) 27 0 3.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Production of alcohol

tes affect the production of ethyl alcohol during the fermentation of Vitis vinifera (Chasselas) by Saccharomyces cerevisiae?International BaccalaureateAbstractMy research question is to what extent d ... tes affect the production of ethyl alcohol during the fermentation of Vitis vinifera (Chasselas) by Saccharomyces cerevisiae? The aim of this study is to investigate the optimum temperature necessary ...

(26 pages) 1 0 0.0 Feb/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

The Effect of Glucose Concentration on Anaerobic Respiration in Yeast

ffect of Glucose Concentration on Anaerobic Respiration in YeastIntroduction:Yeast, also known as a saccharomyces cerevisiae, is single celled eukaryotic cells that are in the kingdom fungi and are un ...

(3 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology