SPORES INVOLVED IN ASEXUAL AND SEXUAL REPRODUCTION

Question 1

Spores produced singly or multiply in long chains or clusters

Answer 1

Conidia

Question 2

Types of Conidia

Answer 2

Macroconidia
Microconidia

Question 3

large, multicellular conidia

Answer 3

Macroconidia

Question 4

small, unicellular (single cell) conidia

Answer 4

Microconidia

Question 5

Develops as daughter cell buds off the mother cell and is
pinched off

Answer 5

Blastoconidia

Question 6

Characteristic of Blastoconidia (2)

Answer 6

➔ budding yeast
➔ Bowling pin

Question 7

One example of Blastoconidia

Answer 7

Candida

Question 8

Thick-walled resistant spores formed from rounding up and enlargement of terminal hyphal cells

Answer 8

Chlamidoconidia

Question 9

Give the term if the rounding up of terminal hyphal cell is in:
- end/tip
- side
- within

Answer 9

➔ Terminal (end/tip)
➔ Sessile (side)
➔ Intercalary (within)

Question 10

Example of Chlamidoconidia (3)

Answer 10

P. brasiliensis,
C. albicans,
Microsporum spp

Question 11

Involves simple fragmentation of the mycelium; jointed, barrel-shaped spores

Answer 11

Arthroconidia

Question 12

Arthroconidia examples (3)

Answer 12

Coccidiodes
Geotritchum
Trichosporon

Question 13

Spores contained in sporangia or sacs that are produced terminally on sporangiophore or aseptate hyphae

Answer 13

Sporangiospores

Question 14

Sporangiospores example

Answer 14

Zygomycetes

Question 15

Spores involved in Asexual Reproduction (5)

Answer 15

1. Conidia
2. Blastoconidia
3. Chlamidoconidia
4. Arthroconidia
5. Sporangiospores

Question 16

Wine skin/bladder

Answer 16

Ascospores

Question 17

Contained in saclike ascus

Answer 17

Ascospores

Question 18

Base/pedestal

Answer 18

Basidiospores

Question 19

Contained in a club-shaped basidium; clamp connections

Answer 19

Basidiospores

Question 20

Yoke/join

Answer 20

Zygospores

Question 21

Involve the fusion of two identical cells arising from the same hypha

Answer 21

Zygospores