| All your favorite microbes recreated larger than their own real life! This soft 5 inch plush is washable with a damp cloth and mild soap.
Come and get it! This microbe is a baker, and a brewer -- and a scientist to boot. Pretty amazing! Learn about the secrets to its success.
Facts: For at least six thousand years, Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used to make beer and bread! (It is also one of the many varieties of yeast used to make wine.) Its Latin name means "sugar fungus of the beer" - though it is widely used in biomedical research as well because it is inexpensive and grows quickly. One yeast can turn into 1,000,000 in only six hours; and a single drop of yeast can contain 5,000,000!
Yeast contains special enzymes that turn sugar molecules into carbon dioxide and alcohol. ("En zume" means "in yeast" in Greek) The carbon dioxide gas makes bread rise and causes the bubbles in beer. The alcohol makes well, the alcohol.
Purchase this plush to find out more! Great for use in the classroom, to annoy friends or just to have something off the wall for a conversation starter!
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