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What are some identifying characteristics of eukaryotes?

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  • Have a membrane surrounding their DNA
  • Have a nucleus
  • Have internal-membrane bound organelles
  • Are larger, 10-100 um in diameter
  • Have more complex structure
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What organisms are eukaryotes?

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Algae, fungi, Protozoa , animals, plants

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What are the eukaryotic appendages?

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Flagella

Cilia

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What is the difference between the rough and smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum?

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Rough: associated with ribosomes; makes secretary and membrane proteins

Smooth: makes lipids

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What are the components of the cytoskeleton?

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Microtubules

Intermediate filaments

Microfilaments

Centrosome(kinda)

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What is the function of microtubules?

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Form the mitotic spindle and maintain cell shape

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What is the function of the centrosome?

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Microtubules organizing center

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What is the function of the intermediate filaments ?

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Fibrous proteins that hold organelles in place

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What are the functions of microfilaments?

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Fibrous proteins; form the cellular cortex

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What is the function of the Nucleolus?

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Enclosed region where ribosomes are formed

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Describe the eukaryotic flagella

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Long appendages present singly or in bundles that propel the cell with a whip-like motion

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What is the flagella composed of?

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Composed of tubulars and microtubules

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Describe the Cilia of eukaryotes

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Similar to flagella in structure and function, but cilia are much smaller and more numerous

Cilia move in an undulating manner

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Cilia are found __________ to the cell

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Peritrichously

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Which organism would move faster between those with cilia or those with flagella?

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The one with cilia

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Where is chlorophyll found?

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In chlorophyll containing organelles found in phototrophic eukaryotes- plants, unicellular and multicellular algae and protists

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How do chloroplasts appear under a light microscope?

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Relatively large and and readily visible with the light microscope

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Describe briefly, the structure of chloroplasts

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Composed of two phospholipid bilayer membranes and contain 70s ribosomes and DNA

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What are thylakoids?

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A flattened membrane disc containing all other components needed for photosynthesis

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When did the first eukaryotic organism evolve?

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Thought to evolve 1.5 billion years ago

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What is endosymbiosis?

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A process where one prokaryote lives inside the cell of another organism to the benefit of both

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What is the endosymbiosis hypothesis?

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Mitochondria and chloroplasts are thought to have evolved from bacteria that were engulfed by larger cells

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What is primary endosymbiosis?

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Involves the engulfment of a bacterium by another free-living organism

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What is Secondary endosymbiosis?

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Occurs when the product of primary symbiosis is engulfed and restrained by another free-living eukaryote.

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Explain the result of secondary endosymbiosis

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Secondary endosymbiosis has occurred several times and has given rise to extremely diverse groups of algae and other eukaryotes

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How do organisms in the Kingdom: Protista reproduce?

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Binary fission

Multiple fission

Sexually by contagion

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What is binary fission?

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Splits into two asexually

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What is multiple fission?

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Producing more than 2 individuals

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How can protists be classified?

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Into 2 major groups:

  • plant-like
  • animal-like
  • fungi-like

In 11 phyla

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Where are protists usually found ?

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In aquatic environment, some are terrestrial while others can be present in a suitable host

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What sizes are Protista?

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Mostly unicellular, microscopic or macroscopic.

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How do protists acquire nutrients?

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These are a heterogenous groups that include, heterotrophic, photoautotrophic or a combination of both forms

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What are examples oof animal-like protists?

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  • Sarcodinia
  • Ciliophoria
  • Zooflagellates
  • Leishmaniasis
  • Sporozoa
  • Malaria
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Describe Sarcodinia

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Free-living animals-like protists that inhabit aquatic and soul environments

They utilize pseudopodia for locomotion, feed by phagocytosis on bacteria, other protists, and organic materials

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What are entamoebas?

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  • Parasites of vertebrates and invertebrates

- Forms cysts that are transmitted from person to person

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Give examples of entamoebas

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E.g. entamoeba histolytica -amoebic dysentery

E.g. Naegleria spp. - primary amoebic meningoencephalitis

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Describe Ciliophoa

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  • Complex and unicellular animal-like protists
  • utilize cilia for locomotion
  • defined shape and 2 nuclei
  • some associated with diseases in humans
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How does Ciliophora reproduce?

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Reproduce asexually by binary fission and sexually by conjugation

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Give a general description of zooflagellates

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  • Lack plastids
  • Reduced mitochondria(often anaerobic)
  • lack key enzymes
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List the types of zooflagellates

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  • Diplomonads
  • Parabasalids
  • Euglenoids
  • Kinetoplastids
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Describe Diplomonads

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  • a type of zooflagellate
  • 2 nuclei
  • Multiple flagella
  • E.g. Giardia-intestinal giardiasis
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Describe Parabasalids

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  • a type of zooflagellates
  • Flagella and undulating membrane
  • May have genes from bacteria
  • e.g. trichomonas-sexually transmitted
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Describe Euglenoids

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  • a type of Zooflagellates
  • Characterized by anterior pocket with 1 or 2 flagella
  • Autotrophic, mixotrophic or heterotrophic
  • e.g. Euglena
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Describe Kinetoplastids

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  • a type of zooflagellates
  • 1 flagella
  • Single large mitochondria associated Kinetoplast
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Give examples of diseases caused by kinetoplastoids

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Trypanosoma-African trypanosomiasis

American trypanosomiasis

Leishmania organism which causes leishmania

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Describe the structure of sporozoa

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  • Possess “apical complex” consisting of microtubules and other components that is used to infect host cell
  • Have apicoplast(non-photosynthetic plastid)
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Describe the pathogenicity of Sporozoa

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  • Parasites of animals and humans and some cause serious disease
  • multiple life stages, reproduce asexually and sexually
  • vector transmitted, require 2 or more different host
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Give examples of Sporozoa

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Plasmodium, Cryptosporidium and toxoplasma

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Describe Malaria infection

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  1. Malaria infection
  2. Stages in liver
  3. Stages in red blood cells
  4. Certain merozoites develop into gametocytes
  5. Gametocytes ingested by mosquito
  6. Sporizoites form within mosquito
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What is the causative agent of Malaria?

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Plasmodium spp.

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What transmits Malaria?

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Mosquito, Anpheles spp.

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Describe the life cycle of Plasmodium spp. / malaria

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Complex life cycle involving asexual (vertebrate host) and sexual (mosquito) reproduction

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How does Malaria affect the world?

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Associated with high morbidity and mortality worldwide

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Who does Malaria infect?

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Infects vertebrate hosts, including, humans

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Describe the life cycle of Chlorophyta

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Complex life cycle involving sexual and asexual stages

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Describe the variations of chlorophyta

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Microscopic or macroscopic, unicellular or multicellular, motile or non-motile

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Describe the structure of chlorophyta

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  • contain beta carotene and xanthophylls in addition to chlorophyll A and B
  • cell wall contains cellulose and store food from starch
  • similar to plants
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Where is green algae usually found?

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Mostly found in freshwater, some marine or soil, or symboints.

Endolithic algae found in layers near rock surfaces

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What is Chlorophyta ?

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A division of lower plants that comprises the green algae

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List 2 plant-like protists

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  • green algae

- red algae

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What is Rhodophyta?

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A division of lower plants that contains the red algae

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Describe the structure of Rhodophyta/red algae

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  • Contain phycoerythrin and phycocyanin in addition to chlorophyll A
  • Double cell walls- the outer layers contain the polysaccharides agarose and agaropectin that can be extracted from the cell walls by boiling
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Where are Rhodophyta usually found?

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Most abundant in coastal warm waters in tropical oceans or freshwater

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Give examples of Rhodophyta

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Agar(Gelidium), alginates (var. sources), carrageenan (Chondrus)

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Describe the rhodophyta life cycle

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-eukaryotic, mostly multicellular, reproduce sexually as well as asexually

66
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Give examples of fungus-like protists

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  • water molds “egg fungus”

- cellular slime methods

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Describe the structure of water molds “egg fungus”

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  • Fungus like morphology but not related to fungi

- cell wall contains cellulose and not chitin

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How do water molds reproduce?

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Reproduce sexually and asexually

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What is the official name for “egg fungus”?

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Water molds

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Describe water molds “egg fungus” in the environment

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Non-photosynthetic and include many saprobes and parasites and appear as white fluffy growths one dead organisms

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Describe Cellular slime molds

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-Individual haploid cells and form diploid only under certain conditions

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Describe cellular slime molds in the environment

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  • ingest bacteria by phagocytosis
  • cells aggregate to form a multicellular pseudopodium from which arise fruiting body
  • some cells become spores
73
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What kingdom are fungi in?

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Mycetae

74
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How many species of fungi are there?

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100,000 species

75
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How can fungi be categorized?

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Microscopic fungi

Macroscopic fungi:

Yeasts

Molds

Some are dimorphic (yeast like and filamentous forms exist)

Usually unicellular or colonial

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Describe yeasts

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  • Round or oval shape
  • Unique mode of asexual reproduction
  • Some form psuedohyphae(false filaments)
77
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Describe molds

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  • Long, threadlike cells

- Filaments arrangement(hyphae)

78
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Give the general mechanism of fungal nutrition

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  • penetrates the substrates
  • secretes enzymes
  • breaks down the enzymes into small molecules
  • absorbs the molecules
79
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Fungal nutrition has large Importance in…

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Medical and agricultural

80
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Describe possibilities to fungal nutrition

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Heterotropic

Acquire nutrients from substrates

Most fungi are saprobes

Can also be parasites

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What are the functions of hyphae?

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  • Vegetative hyphae(mycelia)- visible mass of growth on the substrate surface; penetrates the substrate to digest and absorb nutrients
  • reproductive(fertile) hyphae- from vegetative hyphae; responsible for the production of spores
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How do most microscopic fungi grow?

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In loose associations or colonies

83
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Describe the appearance of microscopic yeast fungi

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Soft, uniform texture and appearance

84
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Describe the physical appearance of filamentous fungal colonies

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Cottony, hairy, or velvety textures

85
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What is mycelium?

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The woven, intertwining mass of hyphae that makes up the body or colony of a mold

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What are the organizational features of hyphae?

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  • Septa- divide the hyphae into segments(most fungi have septate hyphae)
  • Nonseptate hyphae- one long, continuous, multinucleate
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Describe fungal sexual reproduction

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  • increases genetic variation
  • Majority of fungi produce sexual spores at some point
  • Sexual reproduction involves fusion of haploid “+” and “-“ mating types
88
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Give examples of fungi that asexually reproduce

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  • sporangiospores

- conidospores

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Describe Conidiospores

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  • Also known as conidia
  • Free spores
  • Develop either by pinching off the tip of the fertile hypha or by segmentation of a vegetative hypha
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Describe Sporangiospores

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  • formed by successive cleavages within the sporangium
  • Sporangium attached to the sporangiophore
  • released when the sporangium ruptures
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Nearly all fungi are _______________ and don’t need _________

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Free-living

Host

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How does human infection by pathogenic fungi usually occur?

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Usually via accidental contact

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What types of pathogenic fungi are humans not resistant to?

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  1. Primary pathogens.

2. Opportunistic pathogens

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What are the benefits of fungi?

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  • Decomposing organic matter and returning essential minerals to the soil
  • Mycorrhize increase the ability of plant roots to absorb water and nutrients.
  • Production of antibiotics, alcohol, organic acids, vitamins, food flavorings
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How do Mycoses/ fungi negatively impact humans?

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Not just infections but also allergies, poisoning, agricultural damage

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What are parasites?

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An organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the expense of its host

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Why do parasites not kill?

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Parasites cannot grow and multiply without a host so they don’t kill their host but it can spread diseases and some can be fatal

98
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How do parasites differ from predators?

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Parasites are much smaller than their host and reproduce at a faster rate

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What are the 3 classes of parasites that cause disease in humans?

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  • Protozoa
  • helminths
  • ectoparasites
100
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What type of respiration do protozoan parasites typically use?

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Usually facultatively anaerobic

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How much species of protozoan parasites are there?

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Estimated 100,000 species but approx. 25 are important to humans

102
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Give a brief description of the anatomy and physiology of protozoan parasites

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-unicellular, animal-like microbes, most have some form of motility

  • physiologically simple
    - Acquire nutrition via pino or phagocytosis or enter via specialized site/structure
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Describe the life cycles of protozoan parasites

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  • Most reproduce by simple asexual cell division (binary fission) of the active feeding cell
  • Many undergo formation of a cyst
  • A few others (e.g., Plasmodium spp. ) have a complex life cycle that includes asexual and sexual phases
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What is the entamoeba histolytica as a pathogen

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Intestinal protozoan parasites

Entamoeba histolytica: uses psuedopodia for locomotion, May invade the colon and cause bloody diarrhea-amoeba dysentery.

Also causes amoebic liver abscess, reproduce asexually

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What is the Balantidum coli as a pathogen?

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Intestinal protozoan parasites

Ciliate protozoan that lives in the colon of pigs, humans and rodents and lead to colonic ulceration, reproduces asexually

106
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What is the Giarda lamblia as a pathogen?

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Intestinal protozoan parasites

Flagellate protozoan with world-wife distribution, lives in the small intestine and results in malabsorption, reproduces asexually

107
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What is Cryptosporidium parvum as a pathogen?

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Intestinal protozoal parasites

Non-motile protozoan, more prevelant in the immunicompromised patients, reproduces sexually and asexually

108
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Describe Cyclospora cyatenensis as a pathogen

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Intestinal protozoal parasites

Non-motile protozoan, parasites the small intestinal mucosa and may cause diarrhea for several weeks, reproduces sexually and asexually

109
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Describe Trichomonas vaginalis as a pathogen

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Trichomonas vaginalis: flagellate protozoan, sexually transmitted, reproduces asexually

110
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Name the intestinal protozoan parasites

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  • entamoeba histolytica
  • Balantidium coli
  • Giarda lamblia
  • Cryptosporidium parvum
  • Cyclospora cyatenesis
  • Trichomonas vaginalis
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Name the extra-intestinal/Blood and tissue Protozoa

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  • plasmodium spp.
  • leishmania spp.
  • trypanosoma
  • Toxoplasma gondii
112
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Describe Plasmodium spp. as a pathogen

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Non-motile parasite, causative agent of malaria, transmitted by Anopheles mosquito.

There are 4 species that infect humans: P. falciparum, P. Vivax, P. Ovale and P. malaria

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Describe Leishmania spp. as a pathogen

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Extra-intestinal/blood and tissue protozoan

Flagellate protozoan, transmitted by sand flies, can lead to visceral, cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmanias

114
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Describe Trypanosoma as a pathogen

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Trypanosoma: flagellate protozoan cause

In Africa -sleeping sickness (transmitted by the Tsetse Fly)

South America- Chaga’s disease (transmitted by the Reduviid bug)

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Describe Toxoplasma gondii as a pathogen

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Extra-intestinal/blood and tissue Protozoa

Non-motile Protozoa, transmitted by the ingestion of oocytes from cat faeces.

Infection can lead to severe manifestations and is also a cause of neonatal toxoplasmosis

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Describe the structure of Metazoan parasites

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Eukaryotic, multicellular animals that have digestive, circulatory, nervous, excretory and reproductive systems

Has bilateral symmetry, head and tail, and tissue differentiation (endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm)

117
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Where do Metazoan parasites spend their lives?

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Spend most of their lives in host

118
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What is another name of Metazoan parasite?

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Helminths

119
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What is are the classifications of helminths?

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Nemahelminths(roundworms)
Class- nematoda

Phatylhelminthes(flatworms)

 Class Trematoda(flukes)
 Class Cestoda(tapeworms)
120
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Give the general features of nematodes(round worms)

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  1. They have cylindrical bodies and complete digestive tracts
  2. Body is covered with a cuticle. The oral opening may have hooks or suckers to attach to mucosal epithelium.
  3. There are separate male and female sexes which mate and produce eggs within the human host
  4. The worms, larvae or eggs may be diagnostic. Eggs typically have a characteristic shape, cell wall density and cap (“operculum”) on one or both ends
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Describe Ascaris

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Round work and intestinal nematodes

  • found world-wide in conditions of poor hygiene
  • causes eosinophilia
122
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Describe Enterobinus

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Pinworm and intestinal nematodes

-prevalent worldwide, found mainly in children

123
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Describe Trichuris as a pathogen

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Trichuris(whipworm)

  • prevalent in warm, humid conditions
  • Can cause diarrhea, rectal prolapse and Anaheim’s in heavily-infected people
124
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Describe Ancylostoma and Necator as pathogens

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Ancylostoma and Necator(hookworms)

A major cause of Anaemia in the tropics

125
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Describe strongyloides as a pathogen

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  • inhabits the small bowel

- Infection more severe in immunocompromized people(e.g. HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, intercurrent disease)

126
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Give examples of tissue nematodes

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  • toxocara

- trichinella

127
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Give examples of Filarial nematodes

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  • Onchocerra

- Wuchereria and Brugia

128
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Describe toxicara as a pathogen

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  • a tissue nematode
  • a world wide infection of dogs and cats
  • Human infection occurs when embryonated eggs are ingested from dog or cat faeces
129
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Describe Trichinella as a pathogen

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  • a tissue nematode
  • Associated with consumption of infected and unfrozen or poorly cooked meat
  • Encysted larvae occur in striate muscle and symptoms occur based on location
130
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Describe Onchocerra as a pathogen

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A filarial nematode

  • Transmitted by black fly
  • Causes visual impairments, blindness severe itching of the skin in infected individuals
131
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Describe Wuchereria and Brugia as a pathogen

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Wuchereria and Brugia

  • filarial nematodes
  • the major causative agent of lymphatic filariasis
132
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What are the General features of Trematodes(flukes)?

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  1. Trematodes have a dead-end digestive system, nutrients are taken and expelled from the same opening
  2. Trematodes and cestodes are both classified into the phylum, Platyhelminth/flatworms
133
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Describe the life cycle of Trematodes

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Trematode life cycle involves more than one host, a mollusk and a vertebrate

134
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Give examples of Trematodes(flukes)

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  • Fasciolopsis (intestinal fluke)
  • Fasciola (liver fluke)
  • Paragonimus(lung fluke) and Clonorchus(Chinese liver fluke)
135
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Describe Fasciolopsis as a pathogen

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  • Fasciolopsis (intestinal fluke)
  • A common parasite of human and pigs
  • One of the largest Trematodes to infect man lives in the upper intestine
  • Chronic infection leads to inflammation, ulceration and hemmorhage of the small intestine
136
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Describe fasciola as a pathogen

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  • A parasite of sheep, humans become infected when ingest metacercariae that have encysted on watercress
  • The adult trematode lives in the intra-hepatic bile ducts of the liver. “Fascioliasis” can lead to severe anaemia in humans
137
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Describe Paragonimus (lung fluke) and Clonorchis(Chinese liver fluke)

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  • a wide spread in the Far East and South East Asia

- The parasite is acquired by ingestion of infective metacercariae in raw or pickled crustaceans

138
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Give details of the anatomy of Cestodes/tapeworms

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Tapeworms have flat segments called proglottids develop sequentially from a head called the scolex

The worm has no digestive tract but absorbs nutrients directly into the proglottis and scoleces

139
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Give the function of the scolex

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The scolex of the cestodes(tapeworms) contains suckers and/or hooks used to attach to the intestinal epithelium

140
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What are the usual hosts of Cestodes(tapeworms)?

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Humans are usually the definitive hosts. When they are the immediate hosts more serious disease occurs

141
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Describe the sexual reproduction of cestodes(tapeworms)

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Tapeworms are hermaphroditic, each proglottid producing sperm and egg, and engaging in self-fertillization , releasing fertilized eggs.

Proglottids May break off sequentially from the elongating tapeworm bodies as well

142
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Give examples of intestinal tapeworms

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Taenia(beef tapeworm)

Taenia(pork tapeworm)

143
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Describe the pathogenicity of Taenia(beef tapeworm)

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Occurrence worldwide

  • acquired via ingestion of contaminated, uncooked beef
  • a common infection but causes minimal symptoms
144
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Describe the pathogenicity of Taenia(pork tapeworm)

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  • occurrence worldwide
  • Acquired by ingestion of contaminated, uncooked pork that contains cystercerci
  • less common, but causes cysticercosis-a systemic disease where cysticerci encyst in muscles and in the brain and may lead to epilepsy
145
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Give an example of systemic tapeworms

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Eichinococcus(dog and rodent tapeworms)

146
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Describe the pathogenicity of Systemic tapeworms

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  • hyadatid disease occurs when the larval stages of these organisms are ingested
  • The larvae May develop in the human host and cause space-occupying lesions in several organs e.g. brain, liver
147
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Patient has space-occupying lesions on liver,brain and other organs, what is at play?

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Echinococcys-systemic tapeworm

148
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A woman obtains a pathogen from a black fly and becomes visually impaired and has severe itching, what is the pathogen?

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Onchocerra-filarial nematode

149
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A patient is immunocompromised, what pathogens are they at risk of receiving?

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Strongyloides- intestinal nematodes of the small bowel

Cryptosporidium parvum- intestinal protozoan

150
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A patient has been exposed to both the TseTse fly and reduviid bug, what diseases and pathogen are they at risk of?

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Tryponasoma

Africa-sleeping suckness(tsetse fly)

South America -Chaga disease(reduviid bug)

151
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What is a fungus?

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A heterotrophic eukaryotic organism whose cell wall is made of chitin

Microbiology PMY 3 (24 decks)

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