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Re:Baking bread from a 4,500-year-old yeast from Ancient Egy... by sgt101 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:13PM (#20626532)
I'm confused - yeasts are not bacteria?
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Re:Baking bread from a 4,500-year-old yeast from Ancient Egy... by rleigh on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:17PM (#20627895)
No, they are a unicellular fungus, which is a completely separate evolutionary branch (eukaryota).
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Re:Baking bread from a 4,500-year-old yeast from Ancient Egy... by asark on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:15PM (#20626553)
Other bacteria join the party, not just yeast.

[EDIT] which are fungi anyway, incidentally

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