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Define Budding
Budding is an asexual process in which part of a yeast cell pinches itself off to produce a small offspring cell
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Define Chitin
Chitin is a complex polysaccharide not found in bacteria, protists, or other microorganisms.
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Define Coenocytic
referring to filaments without internal cross walls
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Define Conidium
A spore produced during asexual reproduction in ascomycetes
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Define Dimorphism
The existence of distinct, genetically determined forms of the same species, such as male and female forms
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Define Fragmentaiton
In fungi, a form of asexual reproduction in which individual cells are released that act like spores.
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Define Hypha
The Vegetative filament of a fungus
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Define Mold
In fungi, a mass of tangled filaments of cells, such as the fungus that grows on bread
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Define Mycology
The study of fungi
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Define Mycelium
A mat of interwoven hyphae
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Define Septa
A Wall dividing hyphae into cells
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Define Sporangiophore
In some funi, an upright hypha that produces sporangia
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Define Sporangiosphore
in fungi, a specialized hypha supporting a sporangium
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Define Sporangium
a spore-brearing sac in plants, algae, and fungi
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Define Yeast
unicelluar fungus whose colonies resemble those of bacteria; known as the microorganisms that make bread rise
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Define Antheridium
In plants, algae, and fungi a reproductive structure that produces gametes by mitosis
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Define Ascocarp
The fruiting body of an ascomycete
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Define Ascogonium
a gamete-producing structure in ascomycetes
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Define Ascus
A spore sac that forms on the surface of an ascocarp
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Define Basidium
A specialized club-shaped reprodctive structure that forms on the gills of mushrooms
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Define Basidiocarp
The fruiting body of a basidiomucete
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Define Basidispore
Germinates to produce haploid mycelia that grow underground
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Define Crustose
A type of lichen that grows as a layer on rocks and trees
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Define Dikaryotic
Cells containing two nuclei
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Define Foliose
Live on flat surfaces, where they form matlike growths with tangled bodies
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Define Fruticose
shrublike lichens
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Define Fungi Imperfecti
Fungi that do not have a sexual stage are placed in this group; deuteromycota.
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Define Gametangium
A sexual reproductive structure that contains a nucleus of a mating type
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Define Lichen
represent symbiotic relationships between a fungus and a photosynthetic partner (usually a cyanobacterium or green alga)
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Define Monokaryotic
Cells that contain one nucleus
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Define Mycorrhiza
A symbiotic association between a fungus adn plant roots
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Define Rhizoid
The hyphae that anchor the mold to the surface of the bread and that penetrate the bread's surface
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Define Stolon
Other hyphae that grow across the surface of the bread
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Define Zygosporangium
Forms a thick wall and becomes dormant
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Define aflatoxin
Poisions produced by some species of Aspergillus; causes liver cancer.
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