Terminologies

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Asexual form of a fungus

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Anamorph

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Sexual form of a fungus

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Teleomorph

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A cell that produces and extrudes conidia

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Annellide

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Ability of a fungus to use a specific carbon or nitrogen source for growth

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Assimilation

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Enlarged, dome-shaped tip of a sporangiophore that extends into the sporangium

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Columella

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A cell that produces conidia

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Conidiogenous cell

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Prefix; meaning dark (brownish or blackish)

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Pheo-

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A subcutaneous or systemic disease caused by a variety of black fungi

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Phaeohyphomycosis

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Conidia cut off sharply; ending abruptly with a flattened edge

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Truncate

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Gk: taxis

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arrangement

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Gk: anomia

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method

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A specialized hyphal structure that serves as a stalk on which conidia are formed

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Conidiophore

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An asexual propagule that forms on the side or on the end of the hypha or conidiophore

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Conidium

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Fungus with cross walls

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Septate

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Fungus without cross walls

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Aseptate

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Results from nuclear division within a cell w/o division in the cytoplasm

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Coenocytic hyphae

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Characterized by multiple projections in a hypha

resembles an OLD COMB hyphae appearance

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Pectinate

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Hyphae with club-shaped cells;

the layer end of one cell being attached to the smaller end of an adjacent cell

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Racquet

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Hyphae forming a coiled or CORKSCREW-LIKE turns

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Spiral

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Terminal hyphae branches that are irregular, broad, and ANTLER-LIKE

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Favic chandelier

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Round KNOT-LIKE structure by intertwined hyphae

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Nodular

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produces ROOT-LIKE structures along the vegetative hyphae

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Rhizoid

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Transparent, clear, and colorless hyphae

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Hyaline

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Hyphae are brown to black in color,

due to melatonic pigment in the cell walls

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Dermaticeous

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Forms filamentous (fuzzy) colonies

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Apical elongation

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Hyphal growth where mycelium is buried down the culture medium for water exchange and nutrient absorption

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Vegetative (hyphal growth)

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Hyphal growth; projects on the surface of the medium with reproductive structures (spores)

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Aerial (hyphal growth)

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Types of apical elongation

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1. Vegetative

2. Aerial

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Triggered by stems for the sub-apical accumulation of wall precursors reaching a critical concentration

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Lateral elongation

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The ability of fungi to grow into 2 forms

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Fungal dimorphism

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Sex organ, gametes; involves mitosis and meiosis

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Gametangium

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Developed as a primary nuclear fusion with reduction in chromosome no.

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Sexual spores

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2-8 ascospores w/in an ascus (sac)

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Ascospores

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2-4 basidiospores on the surface of basidium

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Basidiospores

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Product of the sexual fusion bet. 2 sporangiospores to form large thick-walled bodies

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Zygospore

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Result of the fusion of 2 non-identical hyphae

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Oospore

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Merging of nuclear material or genes combined

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Sporulation, spores

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Do not form mycelium;

Produce pasty colonies

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Unicellular spores

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Form mycelium;

Filamentous colony

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Multicellular spores