Fungi Part 2 Flashcards

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1
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Can fungi reproduce sexually and asexually spores?

A

Yes

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2
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What are the 2 ways that molds reproduce?

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Asexual
Sporulation

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3
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What is the asexual reproduction for Molds?

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Fragmentation of hyphae

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4
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What is the sporulation for molds?

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Sexual or asexual spores
Depend on species
( fungal spores are not as resistant as bacterial endospores and reproductive structures )

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5
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Are fungal spores more resistant than bacterial Endospores?

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No

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6
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How do asexual spores work?

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Formed from one organism & can grow to become a be identical organism

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How do sexual spores work?

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Formed from the fusion of nuclei of 2 different types of strains from the same species of fungi

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8
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How are asexual spore formed on for molds?

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Aerial hyphae

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9
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How are asexual spores produced?

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Mitosis & cell division

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10
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Are asexual spores more common than sexual spores?

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Yes

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11
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What are the 2 major asexual spores?

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Conidiospores
Sporangiospores

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12
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What is conidiospores?

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Spores not enclosed in a sac
( 4 different kinds are found in fungi )

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13
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What is sporangiospores?

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Spores formed in a sporangium sac
( 1 kind of fungi )

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14
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What are the 4 conidiospores ( for molds & asexual spore formation )

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Arthroconidia
Chlamydoconidia
Conidia
Blastoconidia

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15
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What is the advantage of asexual formation?

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Fast & easy & survives alone

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16
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What is the disadvantage of asexual spores?

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No variation

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17
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What is the 1 kind of fungi that’s sporangiospores? ( for molds & asexual reproduction )

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Sporangiospores

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18
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What is arthroconidia?

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Formed by fragmentation of septate hyphae into single cells

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19
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What is chlamydoconidia?

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Thick walled spores formed by rounding & enlargement of hyphal segment
- candidia Albicans

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20
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What is conidia?

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Unicellular or multicellular big enclosed in a sac
- produced in chains at the end of a condiophore
( aspergillus )

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21
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What is blastoconidia?

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Consists of a bud coming off a parent cell
( cryptococuss )

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22
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What is spirangiospores?

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  • only ones found in a sac
  • formed at the end of a sporangiosphore
    ( rhizopus )
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23
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Why are bacterial endospores not reproductive structures while fungal spores are reproductive structures?

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Fungal spores - reproductive
Bacterial spores - resistant structures

Endospores
- only make 1 cell
- but not increasing amount of cells

Fungal spores
- making more than 1 cells ( increasing the number of offsprings )

24
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How does asexual spores help us?

A

Indentifying fungi

25
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What is the 3 steps for sexual spores?

A

Plasmogamy
Karyogamy
Meiosis

26
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What does plasmogamy do?

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A haploid nucleus (+) penetrates
Cytoplasms of a recipient (-)

27
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What does karyogamy do?

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The (+) and (-) fuse to form a diploid zygote nucleus

28
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What meiosis do?

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Diploid nucleus gives rise to haploid spores

29
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How many different kinds of sexual spores (4)

A

Zygomycota
Ascomycota
Basidiomycota
Microsporidia

30
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Why is the main join for sexual spores?

A

To classify which spores goes into what family

31
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What is zygomycota?

A

Produce zygomycota
Coenicytic hyphae
Saprophytic molds
Rhizopus; black mold

32
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What is ascomycota

A

Produce ascospores
Produced in an ascus
Septate hyphae
Sac fungi

33
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What is basidiomycota?

A

Produce basidiospores
Septate hyphae
Club fungi
Mushrooms

34
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What is Microsporidia?

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Unusual, no mitochondria
Obligate intracellular parasites
Important in infections seems in aids patients

35
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What is fungal diseases( another name)

A

Mycosis or mycotic diseases

36
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What are fungal diseases usually are?

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Usually chronic infections / diseases
Usually grow slowly

37
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What are the 5 fungal diseases?

A

Systemic
Subcutaneous
Cutaneous
Superficial
Opportunistic

38
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What is systemic ? And how it works?

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Found deep in the body
( Effect number of tissues and organs )
- inhalation of spores
( histoplasmosis & coccidiomycosis )

39
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What is subcutaneous ? And how it works?

A

Beneath the skin
( direct implantation of spores )

40
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What is cutaneous or dermetophytes? And how it works?

A

Infect epidermis, hair and nails
- transmitted from human to human by direct contact
( contagious mycoses )

41
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How do we get rid of cutaneous infections?

A

Antifungal drugs destroy the ergosterols in fungal cells

42
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What are the 3 dermatomycosis? And what are they?

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Microsporum - hair and skin
Trichophyton - hair, skin and nails
Epidermophytin - skin and nails

43
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What are the most famous cutaneous fungal infection?

A

Ringworm and athletes foot

44
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What causes ringworm or athlete foot?

A

Tinea

45
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How do you treat tinea or ringworm?

A

Miconazole creams

46
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What is superficial?

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Found on hair shafts and superficial epidermis cells, tropical climates

47
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What is opportunistic ?

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Usually harmless in normal healthy people but are harmful for immunocompromised individuals

48
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What is the famous opportunistic fungal ?

A

Candida albicans ( thrush ) (vulvovaginitis)

49
Q

What is thrush and where is it found?

A

Candida albicans

Found in mucous membranes ( mouth and genitalia )

50
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How do you get thrush?

A

Simply through it overgrown in our bodies, we all have it but in small portions but sometimes it overgrown, and some ways it does is by

-causes
- antibiotics
- immunosuppression
- pregnancy

51
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How does thrush look like?

A

White, itchy and painful lesions

52
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Who gets thrush most often?

A

Babies (diaper rash)
Aids patients

53
Q

How do we treat thrush?

A

Antifungal topical applications of miconazole, clotrimazole & nystatin

54
Q

What is PCP?

A

Pneumocysitis jirovecii pneumonia

55
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Is PCP opportunitic?

A

Yes

56
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How do we get PCP?

A

Well we are all exposed to it, and if we are healthy we don’t get it but some people aren’t, so we just inhale it

  • typically aids people get it