Terminologies Flashcards
mycelium, hyphal units above the colony agar interface
Aerial –
a fungus (dermatophyte) that preferentially grows on man rather than other animals or the soil.
Anthropophilic –
conidia produced by annelide
Annelloconidium -
non motile sporangiospores
Aplanospores -
a thallic conidium released by either the splitting of a double septum or by the fragmentation or lysis of a dysjunctor cell. pl. arthroconidia
Arthroconidium –
a fruiting body containing asci and ascospores
Ascocarp –
a group of fungi that reproduce sexually by the endogenous formation of ascospores in an ascus.
Ascomycetes –
a haploid spore produced within an ascus following karyogamy and meiosis
Ascospore –
a sac-like cell containing ascospores. Asci are characteristic of Ascomycetes. Pl. asci
Ascus –
lacking septa often pertaining to the hyphae seen in zygomycetes
Aseptate –
a cell that gives rise to a basidiospore. Basidia are characteristic of the Basidiomyc etes
Basidium –
a group of fungi that reproduce sexually by the exogenous formation of basidiospores from a basidium
Basidiomycetes –
a haploid spore produced on a basidium following karyogamy and meiosis
Basidiospore –
a chain of conidia having the youngest cell at the tip
Blastocatenate –
an asexual conidium that forms by a blowing out or budding process. Pl. blastoconidia
Blastoconidium –
junction of a bud and the mother cell of a yeast
Base –
a type of asexual reproduction commonly found in yeasts
Bud –
conidia arranged in chains
Catenulate –
hyaline mucopolysaccharide covering around the body of certain yeasts
(Cryptococcus, Rhodotorula)
Capsule –
club-shaped
Clavate –
an enclosed ascocarp containing randomly dispersed asci. Pl. cleistothecia
Cleistothecium –
a remnant of a cell wall present at the tip of a phialide, or around a sporangiophore
Collarette –
a sterile dome-like structure at the tip of a sporangiophore or within a sporangium.
Columella –
thick-walled resistant resting spore, esp in Histoplasma capsulatum
Chlamydospore –
without septa
Coenocytic –
a sterile invagination of a sporangium (Zygomycetes)
Columella –
cell that gives rise to a conidium
Conidiogenous cell –
reproductive propagule produced in the absence of nuclear recombination, representing anamorphic or asexual reproduction
Conidium –
specialized hypha that gives rise to, or bears a conidium
Conidiophore–
infection of hair, skin and nails caused by fungi other than dermatophytes
Dermatophyte –
fungus having brown or black melanotic pigment in the cell wall
Dematiaceous –
type of branching of hyphae that is repetitious without pattern, branches are approximately equal in size and the stem from which they originated
Dichotomous –
having two forms
Dimorphic –
an artificial subdivision to accommodate those fungi where only the asexual state is known
Deuteromycetes –
a type of hyphal branching into two equal forks
Dichotomous –
a slow growing variant
Dysgonic –