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Also known as yeasts
A yeast is any species of fungus that grows primarily in a unicellular form and reproduces via budding or fission. Yeasts are eukaryotic microorganisms that originated hundreds of millions of years ago, with at least 1,500 species currently recognized. They constitute about 1% of all described fungal species.
Yeasts are single-celled fungi that reproduce by budding or splitting apart, and they've existed for hundreds of millions of years with over 1,500 known species today. Though yeasts make up only about 1% of all described fungi, they are eukaryotic microorganisms that have been important to human life and various biological processes throughout history.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).