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Which microbes is used to extract ethanol from fruit juice and sugar molasses · ​

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Yeast

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A microbe (microorganism) is a microscopic organism which either exist in its single-celled form or as colony of cells. Example of microbes are bacteria, archaea, algae, protozoa.

Yeast is a microbe used in the extraction of ethanol from fruit juices and sugar molasses. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a specie of yeast which reacts with fruit juices and sugar molasses in the absence of Oxygen to produce ethanol and carbon dioxide.

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