minipost: what's the life-form of the month?

olivia judson votes for yeast - the lovely stuff that makes "bubbles, bread, and beer."
(read her column as she bubbles over everyone's favorite micro-organism of the kingdom Fungi).

and a bonus reading for the curious and the microbially obsessed:
click here to learn more about Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or brewer's yeast.