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Incubation is to Ideas as Fermentation is to ________

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Alcohol

Alcohol is correct.

In the creative process, incubation is the quiet stage in which a problem is left to settle in the mind until ideas emerge. The output of incubation is therefore ideas.

Fermentation is a biochemical process in which yeast breaks down sugar in the absence of oxygen to give ethyl alcohol (ethanol) and carbon dioxide. The output of fermentation is therefore alcohol.

The relation is process : what the process produces, so incubation : ideas :: fermentation : alcohol.

Bacteria and Yeast are the organisms that carry out fermentation, not what it yields. Product is too general a word and does not name the specific result the way Ideas does for incubation.

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