Why yeast is mostly used for fermentation or
biotechnological purposes?

Answer Posted / balaram mohapatra

Among eukaryotes, yeast is specific to substrates, having higher multiplication rate, easy product recovery, can undergo oxidative as well as fermentative metabolism. it also contain 2micron circle as plasmid , about 50 copies per cell and through which vector construction is possible for genetic engineering.

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