Chemostat cultures of one aerobic fermenting yeast (Saccharomyces cei evisiae) and one aerobic respiring yeast (Kluyveromyces fragilis) have been grown under dual C + N limitation in an isothermal reaction calorimeter. The dual limitations resulted in uncoupled oxidation of part of the glucose, which enabled the culture to adapt the ratio of nitrogen to carbon consumption rates precisely to the N/C ratio that was fed into the calorimeter. This conclusion has been reached based on the calorimetric measurements, which reflect uncoupled respiration conspicuously as abnormal heat yields or ratios of heat release per biomass grown.