Saccharomycotina

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Subphylum: Saccharomycotina
Classes

Saccharomycetes

Saccharomycotina is a subphylum of the phylum Ascomycota (fungi which form their sexual spores in sac-like asci), and consists of yeasts - they form no ascocarps (fruiting bodies), their asci are naked, and they can reproduce asexually by budding.

The only class in this subphylum is Saccharomycetes.

It includes the well-known Baker's Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the genus Candida which infects humans.


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