Gujarati
8.Microbes in Human Welfare
medium

Yeast is employed for production of

A

Curd

B

Cheese

C

Acetic acid

D

Ethyl alcohol

(AIPMT-1995)

Solution

(d)Brewer's/Beer yeast is Saccharomyces cerevisiae and wine yeast is Saccharomyces ellipsoideus. They perform alcoholic fermentation

$\mathop {{C_6}{H_{12}}{O_6}}\limits_{{\text{Glucose}}} \mathop {\xrightarrow{{{\text{Yeast}}}}}\limits_{{\text{Zymase}}} \mathop {{C_2}{H_5}OH}\limits_{{\text{Ethyl}}\,{\text{alcohol}}}  + 2C{O_2}$
.

Standard 12
Biology

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