Yeast: 100 years of contribution to biochemistry

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For centuries mankind has benefited from yeast for its survival as well as for joy and even solace in moments of pain. Today the yeast cell is considered a universal model yielding answers to important and intriguing questions about cell division, differentiation, transduction of signals and cell disorders. Classical and molecular genetic methods have been successfully applied to understand the association of genes with proteins and functions-a knowledge which has also led to the development of new biotechnologies