Yeast

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Yeast is a eukaryotic, unicellular organism and belongs to the kingdom of fungi. Saccharomyces cerevisae (or Baker's yeast) is a common form of yeast often used as a model organism due to it's eukaryotic processes, similar to those of animal cells [1].

References

  1. Alberts et al (2008:33-34), Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th edition, New York: Garland Science