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