Quiz #11
Discuss the following using the Ginger Beer text, giving examples:
Fermentation has been used by mankind for thousands of years for raising bread, fermenting wine and brewing beer.The products of the fermentation of sugar by baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (a fungus) are ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide.
Carbon dioxide causes bread to rise and gives effervescent drinks their bubbles.
This action of yeast on sugar is used to 'carbonate' beverages, as in the addition of bubbles to champagne).
– semantic field of: fermentation
– semantic relation: beverage (hypernym)
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beer wine champagne (co-hypernyms)
– semantic components: ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide
– different types of definition: Definiendum: Fermentation
Definiens:
Fermentation is used to raise bread, ferment wine and
brew beer with the help of ethyl alcohol and carbon
dioxide.
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