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Q. Yeast is used in the formation of

Chhattisgarh PMTChhattisgarh PMT 2004

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In brewing industry, Brewer's yeast or beer yeast is Saccharomyces cerevisiae and wine yeast is Saccharomyces ellipsoidens. They perform alcoholic fermentation. $\underset{\text{Glucose}}{C_6H_{12}O_6} \xrightarrow[\text{Zymase}]{\text{Yeast}} \underset{\text{Ethyl alcohol}}{C_2H_5OH + 2CO_2}$ Fermentation is mainly of two types