Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach
Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach
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ISBN: 9781259709227
Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor, Heidi Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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The reason that why fungi evolved to produce products such as alcohol, antibiotics,and vitamins.

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Fungi are very beneficial in the production of some products like cheese, wine, bread, antibiotics, and vitamins that are beneficial to humans. Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae undergoes fermentation of sugar in fruit juices that produce alcohol in wine and also fermentation of sugars in bread dough causes rising of bread. Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is also involved in the production of beer by fermentation of malt from grains.

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