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Exam 1 Terms Flashcards

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Hyphae

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A branch of a mycelium

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Mycelium

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The hypha or mass of hypha that make up the body of a fungus

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Oospores

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Sexual spores produced by the union of two morphologically different gametangia (oogonium and antheridium)

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Sporangium

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A container or case of asexual spores. In some cases it functions as a single spore.

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Sporangiophore

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A specialized hypha bearing one or more sporangia.

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Zoospore

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A motile spore.

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Appressorium

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The swollen tip of a hypha or germ tube that facilitates attachment and penetration of the host by a fungus.

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Haustorium

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A simple or branched projection of hyphae into host cells that attacks a hosting organ.

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Penetration peg

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A hyphae protruding from an appresorium that penetrates into the host.

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Zygospore

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The sexual or resting spore of zygomycetes produced by the fusion of two morphologically similar gametangia.

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Encysted zoospore

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A zoospore that has retracted it’s flagella into a survival structure.

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Antheridium

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The male sexual organ found in some fungi and oomycetes.

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Oogonium

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The female gametangium of oomycetes containing one or more gamates.

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Plasmodium

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A naked, slimy mass of protoplasm containing numerous nuclei.

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Oomycete

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A fungus like chromistan that produces oospores, water mold.

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Plasmodiophoromycete

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A class of protists that are parasites of plants.

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Myxomycete

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Slime Mold

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Chytridiomycete

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Chytridiomycetes is a class of fungi. Members are found in soil, fresh water, and saline estuaries. They are primitive fungi. Have motile spores and no septa.

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Zygomycete

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Ceocytic fungi.

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Zygospore

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Sexual resting spore or Zygomycetes.

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Ascomycete

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Sac fungi

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Ascospore

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A sexually produced spore borne in an ascus.

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Ascus

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A sac like cell of a hypha in which meiosis and occurs and that contains ascospores.

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Ascocarp

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Reproductive sturcture of ascomycetes.

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Chasmothecium

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Spherical ascocarp

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Perithecium

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Flask shaped ascocarp

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Apothecium

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Cup shaped ascocarp

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Naked Asci

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Asci that are not contained within an ascocarp.

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Conidia

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Asexual fungal spore formed at the end of a conidiophore.

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Conidiophore

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A specialized fungal hyphae that bears conidia

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Sporocarps

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The reproductive structure of Deutromycetes

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Pycnidium

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Flask shaped sporocarp

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Acervulus (and setae)

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A subepidermal, saucer shaped, asexual fruiting body that produces conidia

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Sporodochium

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A fruiting structure consisting of a cluster of conidiophores woven together in a mass of hyphae.

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Synnema

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A synnema is a large, erect reproductive structure borne by some fungi, bearing compact conidiophores, which fuse together to form a strand resembling a stalk of wheat, with conidia at the end or on the edges.

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Sclerotia

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A compact mass of hyphae with or without host tissue, usually with a darkened rind, and capable of surviving under unfavorable conditions

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Microsclerotia

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Microscopic sized sclerotia

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Chlamydospore

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A thick-walled asexual spore formed by the modifications of a cell of a fungus hyphae

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Coffin Ship

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Ships that the Irish died on waiting to get into the US

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Black ‘47

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The year in which the most deaths happened during the Irish Potato Famine

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Anastamosis

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Hyphal fusion resulting in the intercommunication of their genetic material

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Vegetative Compatibility Groups

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Heterothallic or homothallic

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Tylosis

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An overgrowth of the protoplast of a parenchyma cell into an adjacent xylem vessel or a tracheid.

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Clamp Connections

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A mechanism used to maintain the dikaryotic state of some fungi

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Basidium

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A club shaped structure on which basidiospores are borne

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Basidiospores

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A sexually produced spore borne on a basidium

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Sterigmata

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A slender protrubance on a basidium that supports the basidiospore.

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Basidiocarp

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The structure bearing basidia

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Rust

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A disease giving a “rusty” appearance to a plant and caused by one of the Uredinales

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Smut

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A diseased caused by smut fungi (Ustilaginales) characterized by masses of dark, powdery, and sometimes odorous spores

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Uredium

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The fruiting structure of rust fungi in which the uredospores are produced.

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Urediospores

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Asexual Rust spores that infect the host on which they are produced.

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Telium

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The fruiting structure in which rust teliospores are produced

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Teliospores

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The sexual, thick walled resting spore of rusts and smuts

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Aecium

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A cup shaped fruiting body of rust fungi that produces aeciospores

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Aeciospores

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Spores produced within an Aecium

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Spermagonium

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A fruiting body of rust fungi in which gametes or gametangia are produced.

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Spermatia

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The male gamete of rust fungi

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White Rot

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Break down lignins

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Brown Rot

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Break down hemicellulose and cellulose

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Rugosity

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Mis-shappen growth of leaves due to usually a plant virus.

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