Sourdough-starter component Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
2. any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

COMPONENT (noun)
1. an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
2. an abstract part of something
SOURDOUGH (noun)
1. a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread
2. a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska)

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