Yeast
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What Is Yeast?
The first time someone observed yeast was in 16 80. A man named anthony van lewenhack m who lived in holland. He took rudimentary microscope and was like, what the heck is in here? And so he found these globules that were made of like six separate, little lumpy things about the same size and shape of a red blood cell. But he wasn't sure what it was. In 18 38, charles cagnard, la tour, i pronounced a frenchman's name in a very englisheusad a better microscope to observe ye cells. So we got another step on the path. Not necessarily closer, yes, but similarly closer.
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