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Colonies of yeast fail to multiply in water, but multiply in sugar solution. Give one reason for this.

Yeast cells fail to multiply in water because water does not provide any nutrition to yeast cells. Whereas in sugar solution, they multiply rapidly because sugar provides nutrition to carry out reproduction.


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