BIOL 2070 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hemicellulose, Xylose, Pichia
Document Summary
Yeast is one of the many species of fungi, which can host in several habitats. Suh and colleagues studied the presence of yeast hosted in the guts of beetles in various geographical areas and discovered about 200 yeast species. Pichia are the most common genera of yeast, and both help in the production of drugs. Yeast can be useful in various areas including biological research and industrial and medical appliances. To identify various yeast species and to avoid synonyms, dna-based methods have been used since 2000. Most of 3000 yeast species discovered have been from. Of the 3000 yeast species discovered, only about 700 species have been identified without synonyms. Dna-based taxonomic concepts have been effectively used recently to sequence areas of dna that encodes for rna so that a detailed, expansive collection of data can be recorded for the rdna of yeasts.
