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mycelium, 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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conidia produced by annelide

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Annelloconidium -

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non motile sporangiospores

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Aplanospores -

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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. pl. arthroconidia

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Arthroconidium –

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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 haploid spore produced within an ascus following karyogamy and meiosis

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Ascospore –

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a sac-like cell containing ascospores. Asci are characteristic of Ascomycetes. Pl. asci

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Ascus –

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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. Basidia are characteristic of the Basidiomyc etes

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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. Pl. blastoconidia

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Blastoconidium –

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junction of a bud and the mother cell of a yeast

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Base –

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17
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a type of asexual reproduction commonly found in yeasts

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Bud –

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18
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conidia arranged in chains

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Catenulate –

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18
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hyaline mucopolysaccharide covering around the body of certain yeasts
(Cryptococcus, Rhodotorula)

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Capsule –

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19
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club-shaped

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Clavate –

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20
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an enclosed ascocarp containing randomly dispersed asci. Pl. cleistothecia

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Cleistothecium –

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21
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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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22
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a sterile dome-like structure at the tip of a sporangiophore or within a sporangium.

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Columella –

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23
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thick-walled resistant resting spore, esp in Histoplasma capsulatum

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Chlamydospore –

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24
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without septa

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Coenocytic –

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25
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a sterile invagination of a sporangium (Zygomycetes)

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Columella –

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26
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cell that gives rise to a conidium

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Conidiogenous cell –

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27
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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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28
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specialized hypha that gives rise to, or bears a conidium

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Conidiophore–

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29
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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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30
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fungus having brown or black melanotic pigment in the cell wall

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Dematiaceous –

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31
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type of branching of hyphae that is repetitious without pattern, branches are approximately equal in size and the stem from which they originated

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Dichotomous –

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32
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having two forms

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Dimorphic –

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33
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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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34
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a type of hyphal branching into two equal forks

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Dichotomous –

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35
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a slow growing variant

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Dysgonic –

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36
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covered with delicate spines

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Echinulate –

37
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spore formed within a spherule by cleavage of cytoplasm

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Endospore -

37
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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 –

38
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arthroconidia formed inside a hair shaft. Cuticle of the hair remains intact

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Endothrix –

39
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fluffy or cottony

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Floccose –

40
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reproductive structures of fungi (spores)

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Fruiting body –

41
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presence of fungi in the blood

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Fungemia –

42
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initial hypha from a sprouting conidia, spore or yeast

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Germ tube –

43
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a fungus that requires mating between two compatible strains for sexual reproduction to occur

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Heterothallic –

44
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a scar at the base of a conidium

45
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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 –

46
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amode 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 –

47
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a fungus capable of sexual reproduction on a single thallus

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Homothallic –

48
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colourless

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Hyaline/Hyalo –

49
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a single/vegetative filament of a fungus. Pl. Hyphae

50
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formed within a hyphal unit

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Intercalary –

51
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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 –

51
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smaller of two types of conidia produced in the same manner by the same fungus

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Microconidium –

52
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mass of hyphae making up a fungus colony

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Mycelium –

53
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a sterile cell below the phialides of some Aspergillus and Penicillium species. Pl. Metulae

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Metula –

54
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black

55
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without septa

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Nonseptate –

56
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like the teeth of a comb

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Pectinate –

57
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darkly pigmented

58
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fragile string of cells that result from the budding of blastoconidia that have remained attached to each other

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Pseudohypha –

59
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a film-like or skin-like surface growth

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Pellicle –

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the brush-like conidiophore of Penicillium. Pl. Penicilli

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Penicillus –

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conidium born from phialide

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Phialoconidia -

62
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a specialized conidiogenous cell that produces conidia in basipetal succession without increasing in length

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Phialide –

63
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holoblastic conidium produced through pores in the cell wall of the conidiogenous cell or conidiophore

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Poroconidium -

64
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having more than one form

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Pleomorphic –

65
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a string of elongated blastoconidia formed in some yeasts that resemble a hypha-like filament

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Pseudohyphae -

66
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pear-shaped

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Pyriform –

67
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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 –

68
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root like structure. Used in the ID of some Zygomycetes

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Rhizoid –

69
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a cross wall in a hypha. Pl. septa

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Septum –

70
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covered in small spines

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Spinulose/Spinose –

71
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specialized hypha that gives rise to a sporangium

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Sporangiophore –

72
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an asexual spore produced within a sporangium; reproductive unit formed in a sporangium

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Sporangiospore –

73
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a sac-like structure producing asexual spores endogenously by cytoplasmic cleavage.

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Sporangium –

74
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star-shaped

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Stellate –

74
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a reproductive propagule formed by either meiosis or mitosis. However, if by asexual means, cleavage of cytoplasm is usually involved.

75
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a small pointed structure upon which a basiospore forms. Pl. sterigmata

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Sterigma –

76
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a running hypha from which rhizoids and sporangiospores arise

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Stolon –

77
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a cross wall

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Septum –

78
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sexual state of a fungus

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Teleomorph –

79
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formed at the end of a structure

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Terminal –

80
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spines or finger-like projections on macroconidia (Histoplasma capsulatum); wart like structures

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Tuberculate –

81
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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 –

82
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having swellings at intervals

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Toruloid –

83
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phialides arising directly from a vesicle as in Aspergillus

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Uniserate –

84
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having many warts

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Verrucose –

85
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swollen or bladder-like cell

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Vesicle –

86
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unicellular fungus, usually round or ovoid, that reproduces by budding

87
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infecting lower animals rather than man

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Zoophilic –

88
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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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Zygospores –

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