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Yeast are a type of fungi that are used in manufacturing bread and beer.In the image below a brewer is adding hops to a fermenter, where yeast are making alcohol as a waste product from respiration.Read the excerpt from a brewery book and choose the best word to fill the blank.Alcohol builds up in the yeast cells' cytoplasm, the alcohol molecules will then leave the cell due to diffusion. This is because the concentration of alcohol molecules outside the cell is ______________ than inside the cell.the same aslowerlotshigher

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Yeast are a type of fungi that are used in manufacturing bread and beer.In the image below a brewer is adding hops to a fermenter, where yeast are making alcohol as a waste product from respiration.Read the excerpt from a brewery book and choose the best word to fill the blank.Alcohol builds up in the yeast cells' cytoplasm, the alcohol molecules will then leave the cell due to diffusion. This is because the concentration of alcohol molecules outside the cell is ______________ than inside the cell.the same aslowerlotshigher

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