Yeast Power! - blowing up balloons with yeast

 

 

 

 

 

Watch on the SGM YouTube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB6ls2Y2Aok&feature=plcp 

??Watch Yeast Power in action! Our students mix yeast, sugar and warm water in a plastic bottle. They put a balloon on the bottle and measure what happens. Also see Dr John Schollar looking at yeast down the microscope and learn how yeast grows by budding. The experiments can be downloaded here http://www.sgm.ac.uk/news/hot_topics/yeastpower.pdf The accompanying resource 'Marvellous Microbes: The Pasteurs' features the story of yeast http://www.sgm.ac.uk/news/hot_topics/thepasteurs.pdf