Over the course of several weeks we carried out multiple related experiments on Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a species of yeast. Yeast is vital to study because it is the simplest of all the eukaryotes and is the basis of our understanding for numerous essential cellular processes. Yeast is a unicellular, eukaryotic fungus that reproduces through budding. To replicate, a bud emerges from the mother cell during S phase of the cell cycle. The bud grows until it is pinched off with newly replicated DNA inside. Yeast can exist in both haploid and diploid states, and both undergo budding.
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