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Pictorial supplement to The Fifth Kingdom - Chapter 6

Yeasts - Polyphyletic Fungi 

(9 pictures)



Yeasts - students often seek a respite from reality with yeast-fermented beverages (see also Chapter 19).



Yeasts - certain yeasts make beer good; but others can spoil your accompanying pizza, as shown here, if you let it sit too long at room temperature...



Yeasts - Teliomycetes - the small colonies are red yeasts, which are basidiomycetes



Yeasts Saccharomycetes - multiplication by repeated budding in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (also see SEM picture below).



Yeasts - Saccharomycetes - cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae showing multilateral budding (SEM).



Yeasts - Saccharomycetes - Candida albicans, budding and producing hyphae (SEM)



Yeasts - Saccharomycetes - Hormoascus, with hyphae producing ascus-like meiosporangia in chains.



Yeasts - Saccharomycetes - the Geotrichum anamorph of Dipodascus, producing thallic-arthric conidia.



Yeasts - Saccharomycetes - TEM section of a septum of Geotrichum, showing many micropores.


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