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What is a yeast plant?

What is a yeast plant? (a) A fly Sitting on the leafof venus fly-trap plant (b) The leaf of venus fly-trap plant folds up capturing the fly (which is its prey) Figure 25. Even some of the plants can eat insects. Venus fly-trap plant is one such plant. (which cannot make their own food by photosynthesis) also obtain their food from other plants and animals. Yeast plant is one such Even the plants can eat insects. For example, the pitcher plant and theygaa• venus fly-trap are the two plants which eat insects.

Yeast are a group of unicellular fungi; a few species of which are commonly used to leaven bread and ferment alcoholic beverages. Most yeasts belong to the division Ascomycota. A few yeasts, such as Candida albicans can cause infection in humans. More than one-thousand species of yeasts have been described. The most commonly used yeast is Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which was domesticated for wine, bread and beer production thousands of years ago.

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They are commonly found on plant leaves, flowers, and fruits, as well as in soil.Yeast are also found on the surface of the skin and in the intestinal tracts of warm-blooded animals, where they may live symbiotically or as parasites. The common "yeast infection" is typically caused by Candida albicans.
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Are yeast and yeast plant the same?
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