Conidial and Hyphal Characteristics

Question 1

Acropetal

Answer 1

successive chain of conidia, having the youngest conidium at the bottom

Question 2

basipetal

Answer 2

proceeding from the apex toward the base

Question 3

catenulate

Answer 3

in chains (of conidia)

Question 4

dictyosporous

Answer 4

conidia having both transverse and oblique septa

Question 5

metula

Answer 5

cells forming branches of conidiphores

Question 6

penicilliate

Answer 6

brush-like cluster of cells and metula

Question 7

phialide

Answer 7

specialized sporogenous cell rpoducing conidia from an open end of a basipetal succession

Question 8

rhizoid

Answer 8

slender hyphal branches with a root-like appearance

Question 9

stolon

Answer 9

horizontal stem connecting organisms