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 diagram below shows the same plant cell, as viewed with the light microscope, and with the transmission ... respiration (in animals, plants and yeast).

Mixing them produces a live culture where yeast and bacteria ferment the sugars ... community in my family's sourdough starter with the microscope I use in my day-to-day research.