A diploid fungus populating the human body worldwide, inhabiting 80% of everyone's intestinal tract, colon, and mouth with no associated symptoms. Is polymorphic, meaning it can grow as both a yeast and as filamentous cells. It is a popular cause of oral and vaginal yeast infections ("thrush"), but is easily treated with common anti-fungals in people who are not immunocompromised.

haploid cells;

it provides an alternative energy pathway for the reaction to proceed.

a catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction but is not consumed during the course of the reaction.

catalysts increase the rate of reaction without being used up. they do this by lowering the activation energy needed. with a catalyst, more collisions result in a reaction, so the rate of reaction increases. different reactions need different catalysts.

a catalyst works by providing an alternative reaction pathway to the reaction product. the rate of the reaction is increased as this alternative route has a lower activation energy than the reaction route not mediated by the catalyst.

it depends on how much it could carry.