DESOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID AND THE BUDDING CYCLE IN THE YEASTS

Abstract
The first budding cycle of well dissimilated baker''s yeast with low initial budding proceeds with sufficient synchrony to make the system useful in the study of the budding process. The desoxyribonucleic acid content per cell approx. doubles toward the end of the 1st cycle if buds are not scored. If buds are included in the cell count the desoxyribonucleic acid content per cell remains constant in actively and asynchronously budding yeast cultures. Cellular desoxyribonucleic acid relation-ships in polyploid cultures should not be obscured by harvesting conditions from asynchronously budding yeasts.