The main food used by cells for respiration is glucose. If oxygen is present then animal, plant and yeast cells can carry out aerobic respiration. The overall process of aerobic respiration is ...

Humans have taken advantage of the metabolism in a tiny fungus called yeast ... defined it as respiration without air (Barnett 2000; Pasteur 1876). Pasteur performed careful experiments and ...

To investigate what happens when yeast cells anticipate a shortage of their favorite food, Shin Ohsawa—a postdoc in the Bühler lab—and his ... factor triggers a respiration-like gene ...

Anaerobic respiration is economically important - many of our foods are produced by microorganisms respiring anaerobically. Yeast is used to make alcoholic drinks. When yeast cells are reproducing ...