BIOTECHNOLOGY Uses of fungi

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BIOTECHNOLOGYUses of fungi

• Commercial beer making

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Commercial beer making process
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Brewers yeast is added to the beer to help in the
fermentation of the malt and barley. Beer can
be made from a large variety of grains.
Brewers yeast
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Brewers yeast as seen under the microscope
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• Traditional beer- sorghum

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• Sorghum wheat

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• A clay pot or calabash are used to store the
  traditional beer in

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• A Zulu woman carrying a pot of traditional beer.

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• The wheat is ground up before being added to the
  pots to ferment the beer.

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• Yeast is a fungus. It is added to the dough of
  bread to make the bread rise. Bubbles of CO2
  are given off.

What process is responsible for this?
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A yeast cell magnified under the microscope

• Single celled

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Yeast cells