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Yeasts are fungi that grow as single cells, producing daughter cells either by budding (the budding yeasts) or by binary fission (the fission yeasts).

They differ from most fungi, which grow as thread-like hyphae. But this distinction is not a fundamental one, because some fungi can alternate between a yeast phase and a hyphal phase, depending on environmental conditions.

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Such fungi are termed dimorphic (with two shapes) and they include several that cause disease of humans.

Here we consider several examples of yeasts and dimorphic fungi:

• the common baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• the genus Cryptococcus, which includes C.

  neoformans, a pathogen of humans

• the dimorphic fungus Candida albicans which can be a signifi