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MYCOLOGY TERMINOLOGIES Flashcards

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Hyphal units above the colony agar interface.

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Aerial

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A fungus (dermatophyte) that preferentially grows on man rather than other animals or the soil.

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Anthropophilic

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A thallic conidium released by either the splitting of a double septum or by the fragmentation or lysis of a dysjunctor cell.

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Arthroconidium

Pl. arthroconidia

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A fruiting body containing asci and ascospores.

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Ascocarp

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A group of fungi that reproduce sexually by the endogenous formation of ascospores in an ascus.

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Ascomycetes

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A sac-like cell containing ascospores.

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Ascus

Pl. asci

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A haploid spore produced within an ascus following karyogamy and meiosis.

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Ascospore

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Lacking septa, often pertaining to the hyphae seen in zygomycetes.

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Aseptate

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A cell that gives rise to a basidiospore.

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Basidium

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A group of fungi that reproduce sexually by the exogenous formation of basidiospores from a basidium.

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Basidiomycetes

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A haploid spore produced on a basidium following karyogamy and meiosis.

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Basidiospore

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A chain of conidia having the youngest cell at the tip.

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Blastocatenate

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An asexual conidium that forms by a blowing out or budding process.

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Blastoconidium

Pl. blastoconidia

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A type of asexual reproduction commonly found in yeasts.

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Bud

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Hyaline mucopolysaccharide covering around the body of certain yeasts

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Capsule

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16
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What does Catenulate mean?

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Conidia arranged in chains.

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17
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Fungi species with capsule

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Cryptococcus and Rhodotorula

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18
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Club-shaped

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Clavate

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19
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An enclosed ascocarp containing randomly dispersed asci.

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Cleistothecium

Pl. cleistothecia

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A remnant of a cell wall present at the tip of a phialide, or around a sporangiophore.

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Collarette

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A sterile invagination / dome-like structure at the tip of a sporangiophore or within a sporangium.

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Columella

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Thick-walled resistant resting spore, especially in Histoplasma capsulatum.

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Chlamydospore

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23
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Without septa.

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Coenocytic / Nonseptate

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Cell that gives rise to a conidium.

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Conidiogenous cell

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Reproductive propagule produced in the absence of nuclear recombination, representing anamorphic or asexual reproduction.

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Conidium

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Specialized hypha that gives rise to, or bears a conidium.

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Conidiophore

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27
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Infection of hair, skin, and nails caused by fungi other than dermatophytes.

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Dermatophyte

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28
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Fungus having brown or black melanotic pigment in the cell wall.

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Dematiaceous

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29
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Type of branching of hyphae that is repetitious without pattern, branches are approximately equal in size.

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Dichotomous

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30
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Having two forms.

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Dimorphic

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31
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An artificial subdivision to accommodate those fungi where only the asexual state is known.

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Deuteromycetes

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32
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A slow growing variant.

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Dysgonic

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33
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Covered with delicate spines.

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Echinulate

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Forming a sheath of arthroconidia on the outside of a hair shaft. Cuticle of the hair is destroyed.

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Ectothrix

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Arthroconidia formed inside a hair shaft. Cuticle of the hair remains intact.

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Endothrix

36
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Fluffy or cottony.

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Floccose

37
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Presence of fungi in the blood.

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Fungemia

38
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Initial hypha from a sprouting conidia, spore, or yeast.

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Germ tube

39
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A fungus that requires mating between two compatible strains for sexual reproduction to occur.

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Heterothallic

40
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A scar at the base of a conidium.

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Hilum

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A mode of blastic conidium ontogeny in which all the cell wall layers of the conidiogenous cell are involved in conidium development.

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Holoblastic

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A mode of thallic conidium ontogeny in which all the cell wall layers of the conidiogenous cell are involved in conidium development.

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Holothallic

43
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A fungus capable of sexual reproduction on a single thallus.

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Homothallic

44
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Colourless.

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Hyaline / Hyalo

45
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A single/vegetative filament of a fungus.

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Hyphae

Pl. Hyphae

46
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Formed within a hyphal unit.

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Intercalary

47
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The larger of two different types of conidia produced by a fungus in the same manner.

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Macroconidium

48
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The smaller of two types of conidia produced in the same manner by the same fungus.

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Microconidium

49
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Mass of hyphae making up a fungus colony.

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Mycelium

50
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A sterile cell below the phialides of some Aspergillus and Penicillium species.

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Metula

Pl. Metulae

51
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Black.

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Niger

52
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Like the teeth of a comb.

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Pectinate

53
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Darkly pigmented.

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Phaeo

54
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Fragile string of cells that result from the budding of blastoconidia that have remained attached to each other.

A string of elongated blastoconidia formed in some yeasts that resemble a hypha-like filament.

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Pseudohypha

55
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A film-like or skin-like surface growth.

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Pellicle

56
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The brush-like conidiophore of Penicillium.

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Penicillus

Pl. Penicilli

57
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A specialized conidiogenous cell that produces conidia in basipetal succession without increasing in length.

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Phialide

58
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Having more than one form.

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Pleomorphic

59
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Pear-shaped

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Pyriform

60
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A hypha composed of a number of cells swollen at one end resembling a tennis racquet.

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Racquet hyphae

61
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Root-like structure. Used in the identification of some Zygomycetes.

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Rhizoid

62
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A cross wall in a hypha.

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Septum

Pl. septa

63
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Covered in small spines.

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Spinulose / Spinose

64
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A sac-like structure producing asexual spores endogenously by cytoplasmic cleavage.

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Sporangium

65
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An asexual spore produced within a sporangium; reproductive unit formed in a sporangium.

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Sporiangiospore

66
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Specialized hypha that gives rise to a sporangium.

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Sporiangiophore

67
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A reproductive propagule formed by either meiosis or mitosis.

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Spore

68
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Star-shaped.

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Stellate

69
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A small pointed structure upon which a basidiospore forms.

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Sterigma

Pl. sterigmata

70
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A running hypha from which rhizoids and sporangiospores arise.

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Stolon

71
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Sexual state of a fungus.

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Teleomorph

72
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Formed at the end of a structure.

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Terminal

73
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Spines or finger-like projections on macroconidia (Histoplasma capsulatum); wart-like structures.

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Tuberculate

74
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A mode of conidial ontogeny where a conidium is formed from a pre-existing hyphal segment or cell.

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Thallic

75
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Having swellings at intervals.

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Toruloid

76
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Phialides arising directly from a vesicle as in Aspergillus.

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Uniserate

77
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Having many warts.

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Verrucose

78
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Swollen or bladder-like cell.

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Vesicle

79
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Unicellular fungus, usually round or ovoid, that reproduces by budding.

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Yeast

80
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Infecting lower animals rather than man.

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Zoophilic

81
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A thick-walled sexual spore formed by the fusion of two similar gametangia; characteristic of the Zygomycetes.

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Zygospore

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