cerevisiae
Noun
Meaning
cerevisiae (uncountable)
(informal) The species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or brewer's yeast.
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Although most of its genome can be characterized as euchromatin, S. cerevisiae has regions of DNA that are transcribed very poorly.
A few months later, the first eukaryotic genome was completed, with sequences of the 16 chromosomes of budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae published as the result of a European-led effort begun in the mid-1980s.
After this initial fermentation period, water and the yeast culture Saccharomyces cerevisiae are added to the koji (rice and mold mixture) Shurtleff, W.; Aoyagi, A. 2012.
As such, the yeasts involved in what has been typically called top-cropping or top-fermenting ale may be both Saccharomyces cerevisiae and complex hybrids of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces kudriavzevii.
Finally, the products were cloned inside the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to synthesize the 580,000 base pairs. citation citation The molecular size of the synthetic bacterial genome is 360,110 kilodaltons (kDa).
Decades ago, taxonomists reclassified S. carlsbergensis (uvarum) as a member of S. cerevisiae, noting that the only distinct difference between the two is metabolic.