It explains the distinction between living organisms and non-living things, emphasizing the importance of cell structure and the role of molecules in life processes. Key concepts include diffusion ...

Fission yeast and budding yeast are free-living haploid cells that are easily grown in the laboratory. They have different cell shapes and patterns of division. Left, fission yeast; right ...

The genetic material of yeast contains around 6,000 genes encoding ... genes whose "striking" damaged the mitochondrial structure in the cell, and they identified the genes that were important ...