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The vegetative life cycle of a yeast appears simple. The cell may produce a bud, the bud matures, separates from the mother cell, and produces its first bud. The mother cell continues to produce other buds. It is a simple way of life. However, a single yeast cell, if haploid, besides budding, can find a partner, fuse with it, produce a diploid cell, sporulate, and produce other yeast cells, with different arrangements of genes. Its life is not so simple.
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Spencer, J.F.T., Spencer, D.M. (1997). The Yeasts: Sex and Nonsex. Life Cycles, Sporulation and Genetics. In: Spencer, J.F.T., Spencer, D.M. (eds) Yeasts in Natural and Artificial Habitats. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03370-8_9
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