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what is yeast? other ques. if yeast is a fungi ,then why does it not contain chitin?

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Yeast is unicellular organism belonging to kingdom fungi. Fungi includes organisms that have saprophytic mode of nutrition and contain chitin in cell wall. Yeast also contains chitin in its cell wall and also has saprophytic mode of nutrition so it has been included in kingdom fungi.

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Q. Why does yeast belong to kingdom fungi though it is not multicellular? According to our NCERT book the features of fungi are multicellular eukaryotic organisms possessing cell wall and protista are eukaryotic unicellular organisms. So from these statements, yeast must be placed in kingdom protista since it is unicellular eukaryotic.

Yeast is an example of sac fungi

Q. Yeast is included in fungi and not protista because :

Q. Yeast belongs to the kindgom Fungi.

Yeast is a non-flowering plant belonging to group Fungi.

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