Which of the following is commonly called baker’s yeast?
A rod-shaped bacterium Lactobacillus.
An eukaryote S. cerevisiae.
A spherical bacterium Staphylococci.
A spherical bacterium Streptococci.
Yeast (Saccharomyces) is an eukaryotic organism and member of ascomycetes under kingdom Fungi. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is known as baker's yeast.