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BIOTECHNOLOGY Uses of fungi Commercial beer making
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Commercial beer making process
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Brewers yeast is added to the beer to help in the fermentation of the malt and barley. Beer can be made from a large variety of grains. Brewers yeast
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Brewers yeast as seen under the microscope
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Traditional beer- sorghum
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Sorghum wheat
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A clay pot or calabash are used to store the traditional beer in
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A Zulu woman carrying a pot of traditional beer.
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The wheat is ground up before being added to the pots to ferment the beer.
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Yeast is a fungus. It is added to the dough of bread to make the bread “rise”. Bubbles of CO 2 are given off. What process is responsible for this?
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A yeast cell magnified under the microscope Single celled
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Yeast cells
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