Chapter 12: Eukaryotes Flashcards

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Fungi are prokaryotes or eukaryotes?

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Eukaryotes

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How do fungi reproduce?

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Fungi reproduce a sexually and asexually be at the formation of spores that detach from the parent and Germinate into a new mold

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Asexual reproduction of fungi

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Binary fission, spore formation, most common way that fungi reproduce, budding, fragmentation

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Sexual reproduction

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Harsh conditions

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Hyphae

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Multicellular fungi, tall threadlike structures that obtain nutrients

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Aspergillus niger

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Black mold, non-deadly, found in soil

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Opportunistic pathogen

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Harmless in a normal via meant but pathogenic in hosts with serious health complications

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Candida albicans

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Used infection and mouth/tongue and genital areas. Overgrowth due to medication and immunocompromised individuals

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Tinea pedis

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Athletes foot. Scales, skin breakage. Fun guy throwing and damp places

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Aspergillosis

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He is caused by Aspergillus. COM and fungi, we breathe and all the time. Deadly and immunocompromise individuals causes inflammation of the Lungs

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Protozoa

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Microscopic and unicellular eukaryotes. Free living or parasitic. Inhabit it water and soil. Over 20,000 species

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Characteristics of protozoa reproduction

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Fission, binary fission, budding, multiple fission

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Multiple fission

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Multiple nuclear divisions followed by multiple cytoplasmic divisions producing several offsprings

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Conjugation

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Reproduce sexually, does not have to be under harsh conditions, to protozoa sells fuse in the Micro nucleus migrate to each other. Produce two daughter cells with recombined DNA

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How do amoeba move?

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Pseudopods

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Naegleria fowleri

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Infects the brain. Pathogenic

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Helminths

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Parasitical flat or round worms. Free living organisms

Intermediate host and then definitive host

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Dioecious

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Separate male and female reproductive organs

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Monoecious or hermaphroditic

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Organism that contains both reproductive systems

20
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Taenia saginata

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Beef tapeworm parasitic flatworm

21
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Aedes mosquito

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Transmits larvae Dirofilaria immitis

22
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Heartworm

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Parasitic worm that infects the heart of dogs and cats. Fatal, congestive heart failure