Chapter 12

Question 1

What are the two forms of Fungi?

Answer 1

yeast and mold

Question 2

What is yeast?

Answer 2

unicellular

Question 3

What is mold?

Answer 3

multicellular

Question 4

chemoheterotrophs

Answer 4

aerobic or facultative

Question 5

what are Hyphae?

Answer 5

long filaments which form the body or hallus of fungi.

Question 6

What is mycelium

Answer 6

when hyphae grow and intertwine together

Question 7

what is dimorphic fungi?

Answer 7

fungi that grow in both mold and yeast form.

Question 8

What are two examples of dimorphic fungi?

Answer 8

histoplasma capsulatum and blastomyces dermatitidis

Question 9

*List the 5 asexual spores

Answer 9

1. arthorospores
2. chlamydospores
3. sporangeospore
4. conidiospore
5. blastospore

Question 10

*List the 3 sexual spores

Answer 10

1. zygospore
2. oscospore
3. basidiospores

Question 11

fungi grow better at an ______ pH

Answer 11

acidic

Question 12

molds are aerobic and yeasts are ______________

Answer 12

facultative anaerobic

Question 13

What are the 4 phylums?**

Answer 13

1. zygomycota
2. Ascomycota
3. basidiomycota
   4 deuteromycota

Question 14

List the 4 types of fungal diseases

Answer 14

1. systemic mycoses
2. cutaneous mycoses
3. subcutaneous mycoses
4. opportunistic pathogenic fungi

Question 15

What is an example of systemic mycoses?

Answer 15

histoplasmosis

Question 16

What is an example of cutaneous mycoses?

Answer 16

ringworm

Question 17

Archaezoa lack __________ and carry ________ for mobility.

Answer 17

mitochondria, flagella

Question 18

What are two examples of archaezoa?

Answer 18

trichomomas vaginalis and Giardia lamblia

Question 19

Rhizopoda have ________ for locomotion?

Answer 19

pseudopods

Question 20

Apicomplexala are non ________ and an example is ___________________.

Answer 20

motile, cryptosporidium parvam

Question 21

Plasmodium causes what?

Answer 21

malaria

Question 22

Ciliophora

Answer 22

have cilia and cause a type of coli that brings on chronic severe dysentery, rare

Question 23

Euglenozoa is found only in

Answer 23

tropical countries

Question 24

Euglenozoa have flagella with _________

Answer 24

mitochondria

Question 25

Naegleria fowleri is what? How is it gotten?

Answer 25

brain eating amoeba (meningeoencephalitis); transmitted by swimming in contaminated waters.

Question 26

malaria is transmitted by

Answer 26

mosquitoes-anapheles

Question 27

toxoplasma gondii

Answer 27

found in cat feces, dangerous to pregnant women

Question 28

Cryptosporidium

Answer 28

found in feces of animals and humans in fecal cysts

Question 29

What are the two types of Helminths?

Answer 29

1. Platyhelminths (flatworms)

2. Aschelminthes (roundworms)

Question 30

What is a definitive host?

Answer 30

a host that harbors only sexually mature adult parasites such as mosquitoes

Question 31

what is an intermediate host?

Answer 31

a hos that harbors developmental or larvae stages, and needs another host to complete the life cycle, such as a human

Question 32

what are the two classes of platyhelminths?

Answer 32

trematodes and cestodes

Question 33

what are trematodes?

Answer 33

flukes such as a lung fluke

Question 34

what are cestodes?

Answer 34

tapeworms

Question 35

How are cestodes gotten?

Answer 35

through wild animals like when you hunt an animal and then eat it

Question 36

What are pinworms?

Answer 36

infective to humans

Question 37

What are anthropods as vectors?

Answer 37

multi-legged insects that carry and transmit diseases

Question 38

What’s an example of Archaezoa?

Answer 38

Trichomomas vaginalis

Question 39

What is an example of Rhizopoda?

Answer 39

Entamoeba histolytica