Marsha is eating a chocolate bar that contains hazelnuts and other ground nuts. However, as the bar has a bad taste, she stops. On closer inspection of the bar, she sees a fungal growth around the nuts, embedded in the chocolate. What kind of a fungal infection could have infested the nuts?

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Aspergillus flavus

Candida albicans

Question

Marsha is eating a chocolate bar that contains hazelnuts and other ground nuts. However, as the bar has a bad taste, she stops. On closer inspection of the bar, she sees a fungal growth around the nuts, embedded in the chocolate. What kind of a fungal infection could have infested the nuts?



Saccharomyces cerevisiae



Aspergillus flavus



Candida albicans

anonymous · Answer

Aspergillus flavus  know to infect corn and nuts.

anonymous · Answer

Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of yeast
Candida albicans is a diploid fungus that grows both as yeast and filamentous cells