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What kind of cell wall does a fungi have?
chitin
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What kind of cell is a fungi?
Eukaryotic
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the cell membrane of fungi is made out of
sterols
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a fungi charectoristic is that is has chemoheterotrophs that do what?
absorb nutrients
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is yeast unicellular?
yes
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are mold filamentous?
yes
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dimorphic means a fungi can
be a mold or a yeast depending on the tempature
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pathogenic fungi are grown at body tempature as what?
a yeast.
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At room tempature what does pathogenic grow as?
mold
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How do yeast reproduce?
by budding or by fission
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what is budding?
where it buds off a parent a smaller portion where it eventially becomes just as big
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what is vegatative hyphae?
they are on the bottom of molds, rootlike and are at a vegatative state
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what is arial hyphae
they grow on top of the molds that stick out and have the spores on top of them making the fuzy appearance on the molds.
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A mass of hyphae is called what?
mycelium
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most molds are what?
saprophytic
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his obtains nutrients from dead matter?
saprophytic
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molds are identified for their?
spores and hyphae
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molds can reproduce?
sexually and asexually
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Saccharomyces cerevisae is a beneficial yeast for?
bread, hbv vaccines, wine
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trichoderma is used to make
cellulase
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The beneficial use of taxomyces?
used in chemothereapy, Taxol
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mycoses is?
a fungal disease
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systemic mycoses is?
deep within the body
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sunsucaneous mycoses is?
Beneathe the skin
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cantaneous mycosis is
affect hair, skin, and nails
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superficial mycosis localized in?
hair shafts
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oppurtunistic mycosis is
caused by normal microbiota or enviromental fungi dont general effect disease.
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Histoplasma capsulatum, coccidiodes immitis, and blastomyces dermatidis are what category?
systemic mycosis, all which are related to resporitory and then spread to cause systemic.
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histoplasmosis resembles what at first>?
yeast
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histoplamosis comes from where, where do they originate?
bird, bat, droppings, found in most of the eatern stated Ohio-mississippi causes respiratory infection
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coccidioidomycosis is known as?
valley fever
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Where is coccidioidomycosis picked up from?
desert soils from the sw us
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Valley fever includes these symptoms
coughing, fever, weight loss, and rarely beomes systemic
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Arthroconidium is
the infecious part (there the hyphaeas)of coccidiodomycoses. When soil or dirt is blown up and enters your airway
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Once coccidioidomycoses has entered your body in arthrocondium form it then turns into what form within your body?
spherule that release endospores
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Is coccidioimycoses contangioius from one human to another?
no
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what kind of reprodcuction is coccidioimycosis?
asexual
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blastomycoces dermatititis is located where normally geologically?
mississippi valley region found in soil
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name that disease from symptoms: Asystematic, pneumonia, rapidly spreads throughout the body, cutaneous ulcers, abcessess, and extensive tissue damage
blastomycoses dermatitidis
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How is blstomycoses dermatitidis acquired?
by the soil from bird droppings, it is inhaled
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oppurtunist fungo respitory infections such as?
Aspergillius (black mold)which is found in compost and rhizopus which is found in bread molds
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pneumocystis jirovecii has charecteristics of both?
fungi and protozoa
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Pneumocystis jirovecii reservoir is?
unknown possibly humans or soil
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The droppings of both the black bird and bats support the growth of histoplasma capsulatum: which of these two animal reservoirs is normally actually infected with the fungus? 24-10
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cryptococcus neoformins meningitis reservoir or found where?
in soil or where pigeon and chicken droppings occur. this is then breathes in and could cause meningitis
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This fungus produces a huge capsule that helps idenitfy it when diagnoised
Crytococcus neoformins meningitis
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sporotrichosis is a form of what mycosis?
subcutaneous mycosis
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This happens when you are picking blackberries or working with roses and puncture your skin this disease my happen
sporothrix schenchii, also known as rose gardners disease
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dermotomycoses is also known as
ring worm and tineas
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trichophytom, epidermophyton, and microsporium metabolize keratin and are also known as
dermotomycosis (cutaneous mycosis)
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Dermotomycosis is trasmitted by
formite, example, athletes foot, from shower floor to foot, or sharing nail clippers
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tinea corporis?
ring worm on body
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Candidiasis causing agent is candida albicans growns?
mucosa of mouth, intestinal tract, genitourinary tract. Its a yeast infection!!!
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fulminating disease is a type of?
systemic candidiasis
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Claviceps purpurea and aspergillius flavus is a type of what?
fungus food poisoning
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Name that food poisoning: reduced blood flow to limbs, from grains, mytotoxin in grain, causes you to see things
claviceps purpurea
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Name that food poison: liver cirrohis, liver cancer, mycotoxin in food.
Aspergillius flavus
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