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19 Cards in this Set
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What are eukaryotic heterotrophs that have cell walls made up of primarily chitin?
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Fungi
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What are filaments which grow from tips on mushrooms and molds?
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Hyphae
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What is the collective growth of filaments on mushrooms and molds called?
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Mycelium
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What are fungi called that are decomposers and cycle essential nutrients back into the environment from decaying material?
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Saprotrophs
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Fungi that prey (kill) on living cells are called...
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necrotrophs
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What are fungi that utilize nutrients from living cells, not killing them?
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Biotrophs
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Some fungi reproduce by mitotic cell division producing asexual mitospores directly from hyphae. They are called...
What are two examples? |
anamorphs
Pencillium and Aspergillus |
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If one sees the presence of zygospores in Rhizopus, it is in the BLANK stage.
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teleomorph
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What are the multicellular fruiting bodies of some fungi, reproductive structures that produce meiospores?
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MUSHROOMS YARR
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What is the study of fungi?
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Mycology
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What is a type of staining where the cells are still alive and were not heat fixed to the slide?
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Wet-mount
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What are chemicals or processes that reduce or kill microbes on a substance?
What are two ways this can be achieved? |
Antimicrobial agents
Physical methods and chemical methods |
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What are 5 examples of physical methods used as antimicrobial agents?
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1. High or low temperatures
2. Change in pH 3. Pasteurization 4. Filtration 5. Irradiation or electromagnetic radiation |
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What are 5 examples of CHEMICAL methods used as antimicrobial agents?
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1. Disinfectants
2. Antiseptics 3. Antimicrobials 4. Antibiotics 5. Synthetic drugs |
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The physical and chemical methods of antimicrobial agents are also called...
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germicides
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Antimicrobial agents that completely destroy microbes present on a substance are termed BLANK, while ones that simply inhibit microbial growth are termed BLANK
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Cidal
Static |
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When all viable organisms (fungi, bacteria, viruses) & spores are killed, the result is BLANK.
A process that only destroys pathogens from non-living substances is called BLANK BLANK refers to the removal of pathogens from living tissue. |
Sterilization
Disinfection Antisepsis |
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What is the most common method used in hospitals to test a pathogen's susceptibility to an antimicrobial agent?
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Kirby Bauer disk diffusion method
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What is the standard plate agar used in the KB test called?
What is the standard used to standardize how much bacteria is inoculated on a plate in a KB test? |
Mueller-Hinton
McFarland turbidity standard |
