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Histoplasmosis
Respiratory pathogen in soil chicken farmers system.
Systemic
TERM 2
Sporotrichosis
DEFINITION 2
Disease of farmers through open wounds
TERM 3
Plasmopora
viticola
DEFINITION 3
grape downy mildew
TERM 4
Phakopsora pachyrhizi and P.
meibomiae
DEFINITION 4
soy bean rust
TERM 5
Puccinia gramminis
DEFINITION 5
wheat rust
Rhizoid
Branching hyphae that grows downward and anchors fungus
TERM 7
zoospore
DEFINITION 7
flagelate, motile, asexual spore
TERM 8
karyogamy
DEFINITION 8
the fusion of sexually compatible haploid nuclei
TERM 9
plasmogamy
DEFINITION 9
fusion or mixing of cytoplasm between two cells. Occurs
during anastomosis and is during fusion of cellls to establish
a dikaryon prior to sexual recombination
TERM 10
Basidiospore
DEFINITION 10
Sexual spore of basidiomycota
Basidium
The meiospore of basidios. The structure on which
basidiospores are formed. Produces 4 meiospores that are
born externally on projections called sterigmata
TERM 12
Ascocarp
DEFINITION 12
Friuting structure of Ascomycota
TERM 13
Conidia
DEFINITION 13
Non-motile fungal mitosspore not formed within a
sporangium. The vegitative (sexual) spores of ascos and
basidios
TERM 14
Ascus
DEFINITION 14
Structure in which ascospores are produced sac-;ike
structure
TERM 15
Ascospore
DEFINITION 15
Sexual spore of ascomycota
woronin body
Associates itself with septa. Plugs opening in septa to
prevent cytoplasm loss.
TERM 17
diploid
DEFINITION 17
(2N)Having 2 sets of chromosomes
TERM 18
Haploids
DEFINITION 18
(1N)Having a single set of chromosomes
TERM 19
Zygospore
DEFINITION 19
sexual spore of zygomycota
TERM 20
septum
DEFINITION 20
crosswalls occurring at regular intervals in the hyphae of
Ascos and Basidios. Usually perforate and they define 'cell
compartments' of the hyphae
Thallus
body of fungus
TERM 22
Spitzenkorper
DEFINITION 22
organelle unique to fungi that controls fungal growth at apex
TERM 23
cell compartment
DEFINITION 23
In spetate filamentous fungi the septum is often open
allowing cytoplasm and organelles to move freely from one
"cell" to the next
TERM 24
Tip growth
DEFINITION 24
Apical growth. The characteristic mode of growth of
filamentous fungi in which all new groeth occurs at the
advancing apex of the hypha
TERM 25
Phytophthora
DEFINITION 25
Potato late blight
hymelia vastatrix
coffee rust
TERM 27
Cryphonectria parasitica
DEFINITION 27
chestnut blight
TERM 28
Ophiostoma ulmi
DEFINITION 28
Dutch Elm disease
TERM 29
Fusarium karatitis
DEFINITION 29
eye infection caused by contact soln
TERM 30
Candida
DEFINITION 30
yeast infection infant thrustCandida albicans
Thigomotropism
growth and differentiation of cells based on "touch sensing"
as shown in the rust fungi for appressorium differentiation
over stomata
TERM 32
clamp
connections
DEFINITION 32
Short, backwardly directed branches in hyphae of dikaryotic
basidios. Provide bypass for one dikaryotic nuclei produced
during conjugate nuclear division
TERM 33
coenocytic
DEFINITION 33
describes multinucleate hyphae locking cross walls as found
in zygos
TERM 34
Appresorium
DEFINITION 34
swelling on a germ tube or hyphae, that adheres to the
surface of the host, penetration of host at stomata
TERM 35
dolipore septum
DEFINITION 35
septal pore that allows cytoplasm to flow through but not
nuclei
coccidiomycosis
valley fever, respiratory tract, can be systemic, dust borne,
rodent droppings
TERM 37
Asapergillus
DEFINITION 37
respiratory, inhaling spores, spectrum of diseases, can be
systemic
TERM 38
Dermatophysis
DEFINITION 38
ringworm
TERM 39
superficial
DEFINITION 39
fungal infection of the skin or hair shaft
TERM 40
cutaneous
DEFINITION 40
superficial skin, hair or nails
subcutaneous
chronic localized infection of the body caused by fungal
pathogens in normal host
TERM 42
opportunistic
DEFINITION 42
if immunocomprimised you're more likely to get infected
TERM 43
secondary metabolite
DEFINITION 43
products of metabolism that are not essential for normal
growth, development, or reproduction of an organism.
TERM 44
Claviceps purpurea
DEFINITION 44
fungi that causes ergot, a fungal disease of grasses on rye.
TERM 45
ergotamine
DEFINITION 45
vasoconstriction, dry gangrene, thought to induce
gangrenous ergotism.
ergonovine
spontaneous abortion in mammaks
TERM 47
Fleming
DEFINITION 47
initially discovered penicillin's ability to inhibit
staphylococcus
TERM 48
Chain
DEFINITION 48
First established purification parameters
TERM 49
Florey
DEFINITION 49
supervised clinical trials that led to its use in humans
TERM 50
Neocallimastix
DEFINITION 50
chytrid found in the gut of a cow
