Yeast
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What Is Yeast?
When and how did we first classify yeast as a fungus? We knew it was important because brewers would like, scrape the dregs from the bottom of jars, or the scum at the top, and re use it. In literature in the 16 hundreds to 17 hundreds, scientists were trying to figure it, like, quantify the fiz. They described what they called, quote, a ferment, and defined it as a body existing in a state of internal motion that then transferred that motion to other particles. That's whow people love on tick tak, cute, stinky and weird.
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