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21 Cards in this Set
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What is a fungus that exists predominantly in the Unicellular State and are usually ovoid; reproduce by budding or fission?
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Yeast
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What is a filamentous form of fungi, which replicates asexually and sexually?
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Mold
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What are chains of individual cylindrical cells, each containing a nucleus and fivided from adjacent walls by septa and can branch.
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Hyphae
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What is a mass of branched hyphae (mat-like structure), colonies often described as filamentous, hairy or wooly?
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MYcelium
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What is a hyphae that project above the surface of the culture medium and may produce conidia?
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Aerial Hyphae
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What are the key properties of coenocytic hyphae?
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hollow and multinucleate
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What is the key property of septate hyphae?
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Hollow and multinucleate
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What are the elongated daughter cells from yeastmother pinching off and creating daughter cells?
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Pseudohyphae
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What are Dimorphic Fungi?
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Fungi that exist in both a yeast and mold form
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What has asexual reproductive elements, born naked on specialized structures and serve to disseminate the fungus?
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Conidia
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What are the individual fungal spores of hyphal segments; molds produce conidia by budding or by a thallic process in which hyphal segments fragment into ___________?
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Arthroconidia
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What is a small infectious particle of mycelial form 2-5 micrometer diameter?
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Microconidia
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What is a larger infectious particle of mycelial form 8-15 micrometer diameter?
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Macroconidia
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What is an asexual spore produced in a containing structure called a sporangium?
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Sporangiospore
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What is an asexual or sexual, thick-walled, large spore of the fungus; derived from a hyphal cell?
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Chlamydospore
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What is the sexual spore of the ascomycetes, which include both yeasts and molds; characterized by its production within a sac?
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Ascospore
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What is a young hypha outgrowth of fungi produced during germination, which is the beginning of a mycelium?
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Germ Tube
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What is defined morphologically as a cell that reproduces by budding or by fission?
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Yeast
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What are moulds with broad, sparsely septate, coenocytic hyphae and have root-like rhizoids; the asexual spores (sporangiospores) are contained within a sporangium?
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Zygomycetes
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What includes both yeasts and moulds, which have septate hyphae, asexual spores from conidiophores, sexual spores from ascospore produced within a sac or ascus?
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Ascomycetes
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What are rarely encountered clinically, has a sexual spore characterized from a club-shaped structure?
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Basidiomycetes
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