Learning Objectives
1. Identify the parts of a yeast cell.
2. Observe videos and plot and graph data of yeast fermentation with different food sources.
3. Compare the pathway of fermentation with cellular respiration.
Introduction
Yeast are unicellular organisms in the kingdom Fungi. Yeast have eukaryotic cells
with a large central vacuole that is involved in degradation of macromolecules by hydrolysis.
They also have a cell wall for support which is made of the carbohydrate, chitin. Yeast perform
cellular respiration in the presence of oxygen, but follow the pathway of alcoholic fermentation
when oxygen is absent. Learning Objectives
1. Identify the parts of a yeast cell.
2. Observe videos and plot and graph data of yeast fermentation with different food sources.
3. Compare the pathway of fermentation with cellular respiration.
Introduction
Yeast are unicellular organisms in the kingdom Fungi. Yeast have eukaryotic cells
with a large central vacuole that is involved in degradation of macromolecules by hydrolysis.
They also have a cell wall for support which is made of the carbohydrate, chitin. Yeast perform
cellular respiration in the presence of oxygen, but follow the pathway of alcoholic fermentation
when oxygen is absent.
