🔤 Yeast ✨

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📚noun

yeast

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DEFINITION

a microscopic fungus used in baking and brewing to cause fermentation

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

The baker added yeast to the dough and let it rise for two hours before shaping the loaves. Yeast converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide during the fermentation process used in brewing beer. The recipe calls for active dry yeast that must be dissolved in warm water before mixing with flour. Scientists study yeast as a model organism because its cellular processes closely resemble those of human cells. The yeast infection caused discomfort but the doctor prescribed medication that cleared it up within a week.

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