Yeast!

[francis at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

> From: haha very funny mitch!!! <sroy at mbhs.edu>
> To: yeast at net.bio.net
> Subject: Yeast!

> Hello, I am a 10th grade student at Mongomery Blair High School. We are
> currently dong a project on yeast and I 've had a few problems with the
> whole idea of taxonomic classification. I know that yeast is part of the
> Fungi family and the particular yeast we are looking at is the S.
> ceravisisae. what is the purpose of the class and the orderin
> classification, and for this yeast what would it be?
> Thank You very much for your time. 

Dear Shilpa,

have a look at this www page:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/tax.html

and you will find:

> Taxonomy Id: 4932
> Preferred common name: baker's yeast
> Rank: species
> Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
> Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 3 
>
> Other names: 
>      Saccharomyces capensis[synonym], Saccharomyces italicus[synonym],
>      Saccharomyces oviformis[synonym], Candida robusta[anamorph],
>      yeast[common name], brewer's yeast[common name], lager beer
>      yeast[common name] 
>
> Lineage( abbreviated ):
>       Eukaryotae; Fungi; Ascomycota; Hemiascomycetes;
>      Saccharomycetales; Saccharomycetaceae; Saccharomyces


and you can also look at the lineage of other fungi (appended below)

cheers,


francis

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| B.F. Francis Ouellette  
| GenBank Coordinator
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| francis at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov   




      Fungi (fungi) 
            Ascomycota (ascomycetes) 
                  Archiascomycetes 
                  Euascomycetes 
                  Hemiascomycetes 
                  mitosporic Ascomycota 
                  unclassified Ascomycota 
                  unidentified Ascomycota 
            Basidiomycota (basidiomycetes) 
                  Gasteromycetes 
                  Hymenomycetes 
                  Urediniomycetes 
                  Ustilaginomycetes 
                  unclassified Basidiomycota 
            Chytridiomycota 
                  Chytridiomycetes 
            Zygomycota 
                  Trichomycetes 
                  Zygomycetes 
            environmental samples 
                  unidentified fungus clone 166r6 
                  unidentified fungus clone DA18S1 
            unclassified Fungi 
                  Corynespora 
                  Cylindrocarpon 
                  Embellisia 
                  Helminthosporium 
                  Macrophomina 
                  Malassezia 
                  Monodictys 
                  Myceliophthora 
                  Mycoleptodiscus 
                  Phaeococcomyces 
                  Phaeosclera 
                  Sympodiomycopsis 
                  Thielaviopsis 
                  Sclerotium sp. BSC-97