Unicellular fungi Yeast are unicellular fungi. They are used by brewers and wine-makers because they convert sugar into alcohol, and by bakers because they can produce carbon dioxide to make bread ...

The first life forms to appear on Earth were unicellular, i.e., composed of a single cell, such as yeast or bacteria. Later, animals—multicellular organisms—evolved, developing from a single ...

The unicellular ancestor of animals may have harbored some of the molecular tools that its many-celled descendants use to coordinate and direct cell differentiation and function, scientists show ...

Unicellular organisms, such as microalgae, also age when they can no longer divide due to a lack of nutrients. The newly discovered mechanism enables old cells to rejuvenate and divide again after ...

According to the J. Craig Venter Institute, cloning whole bacterial genomes from one unicellular organism to another is a step toward creating a synthetic genome--a major goal of the institute.

Suicidal bacteria: Unicellular organisms occasionally poison themselves with a toxin Date: March 15, 2013 Source: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Summary: The cyanobacterium Synechocystis ...

The horizontal and vertical distribution of representatives of diazotrophic unicellular cyanobacteria was investigated in the subtropical northeast Atlantic Ocean (28.87 to 42.00°N; 9.01 to 20.02°W).

An ancient unicellular says egg Date: November 6, 2024 Source: Université de Genève Summary: Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii.