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Is yeast a multicellular organism?


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Yeast :

  1. Yeasts are mostly unicellular, but they live in multicellular colonies.
  2. Within the Kingdom of Fungi, yeast is a polyphyletic group of species.
  3. Although many yeasts are known to switch between unicellular and multicellular lifestyles depending on environmental factors, we classify them as facultatively multicellular.

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