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Describe a blastoconidium (blastospore).
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The daughter cell spore produced by yeast asexual budding
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Describe an arthroconidium (arthrospore).
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When hyphae fall apart. Spores that are produced by segmentation of septal hyphae.
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Describe chlamydospores.
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A thick walled hyphal cell spore usually produced from the terminus of septate hyphae
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Describe a sporangiospore.
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Spores contained inside a sporangium. Produced from aseptate hyphae. When the sporangium cracks open, hundreds of sporangiospores are released
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What is canidia?
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a growth above the agar surface from septate hyphae. Has multiple obling spores--like fingers of a hand.
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What is aseptate hyphae? septate hyphae?
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no cell walls seen between nuclei in aseptate
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What is fungal dimorphism?
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Factor of virulence. It is the switching between saprophytic forms and parasitic forms.
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