Prelim Flashcards

0
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Refers to the multicellular filamentous colonies

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Molds

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1
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Is the study of fungus

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Mycology

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2
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Spore is also known as

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Conidia

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3
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Derives from the cells that are normally of the thallus or body of the fungus

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Thallospores

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4
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Penetrate into the medium where the nutrients are absorb

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Vegetative or substrate

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5
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Refers to the unicellular growth of fungi

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Yeast

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6
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Basic structural unit of molds

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Hyphae

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7
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Depends on dead animals

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Saprophytes

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8
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What are the 7 characteristics of fungus

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Eukaryotic
Ubiquitous 
Saprophytic 
Grows on RT
Resistant to antibiotics 
Resistant to cold
Easily killed at high temperatures
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9
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What are the characteristics of yeast colonies

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Opaque moist creamy pasty

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10
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Yeast is reproduce by?

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Budding

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11
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Buds that fails to detach and become elongated yeast extension that resembles hyphae

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Pseudo hyphae

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12
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Long slender branching entertwine cylindrical tubules

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Hyphae

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13
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Hyphae forms a mass or group of countless entertwining strands

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Mycelium

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14
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Diameter of a yeast

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3-15 microns

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15
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What are the two types of mycelium

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Vegetative and aerial or reproductive

16
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Also known as reproductive cells

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Spores

17
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Without partition or transverse wall

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Aseptate

18
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With comblike lateral projections or broken comb appearance

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Pectinate

19
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Example of Pectinate hyphae

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M.audouinii

20
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Antler hyphae

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Favic chandelier

21
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Example of favic chandelier hyphae

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T.schoenlieinii

22
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With partition or transverse wall

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Septate

23
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Coiled hyphae

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Spirals

24
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Example of spiral hyphae

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Dermatophyte

25
Q

Knot or twisted hyphae

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Nodular hyphae

26
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Example nodular hyphae

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M.canis

27
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Projects above the surface of the medium which bears spores

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Aerial or reproductive

28
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Refers to the cells that are generally resistant to adverse effects

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Asexual reproduction

29
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3 types of asexual spore

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Blastospore , Chlamydospores, Arthrospores

30
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Are large round thick wall unicellular structures form by enlargement of the hyphal cell

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Chlamydospores

31
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Unicellular spores formed by the dis articulation by hyphal cell into rectangular thick walled cells

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Arthrospores

32
Q

Result from the fusion of two opposite mating strain of the same sp. of fungus

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Sexual spore

33
Q

Specimen collection for fungi

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Skin scrapping 
Nail scrapping 
Hair
Vaginal discharge 
Pus
Urine
Sputum
Csf
Blood and bone marrow
34
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Formed by budding daughter cell pinching off from portion of mother cell

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Blastospore

35
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A spore contained in an ascus or that was produced inside an ascus

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Ascospores

36
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The thicker wall resting cell of certain fungi and algae arising from the fusion of two similar gamete

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Zygospores

37
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Thick walled resting spore produce by the fertilization of an oosphere

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Oospore

38
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A reproductive spore produced by basidiomycete fungi or basidium

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Basidiospore