Colonies of yeast fail to multiply in water, but multiply in sugar solution. Give one reason for this.

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Yeast is a fungus and needs a supply of energy for its living and growth. Sugar supplies this energy. (Your body also gets much of its energy from sugar and other carbohydrates.) Water does not provide required nutrition.
Yeast can use oxygen to release the energy from sugar

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Colonies of yeast fail to multiply in water, but multiply in sugar solution. Give one reason for this.

Yeast is a fungus and needs a supply of energy for its living and growth. Sugar supplies this energy. (Your body also gets much of its energy from sugar and other carbohydrates.) Water does not provide required nutrition. Yeast can use oxygen to release the energy from sugar

Yeast is a fungus and needs a supply of energy for its living and growth. Sugar supplies this energy. (Your body also gets much of its energy from sugar and other carbohydrates.) Water does not provide required nutrition.
Yeast can use oxygen to release the energy from sugar