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What is the difference between ascus and basidium meiospores?

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Basidium = spores are borne exogenously
Ascus = spores are borne endogenously

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What is a sporangium?

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A specialized cell within which spores develop

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What types of spores do mitosporangia produce?

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Spores developed through mitosis

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What type of spores do meiosporangia produce?

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Spores developed through meiosis

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How are clamps formed in basidiomycetes?

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Two nuclei that both need mitotic division
The division leaves a clamp behind

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How are croziers formed in Ascomycota?

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They are formed immediately before sexual reproduction - don’t last long

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How do spores develop in the ascus?

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Meiosis yields 4 haploid nuclei in the developing ascus
Post-meiotic mitosis happens directly in the ascus
Goes from 4 to 8 spores

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How have asci evolved to eject their spores?

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Their walls
Their openings
Terminal Thickenings

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What is a prototunicate ascus wall?

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Single wall, dissolves when mature

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What is a unitunicate ascus wall?

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Single wall that can have openings in various locations

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What is a bitunicate ascus wall?

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2 walls - jack-in-the-box mechanism that facilitates the ejection of the entire spore pack

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What is a lid on the ascus referred to as?

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An operculum

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How are spores actively discharged from asci?

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A young ascus is filled with glycogen
As ascospores mature, glycogen is converted in low molecular weight osmolyte
The osmolyte takes up water as the ascospores mature, causing the asci to swell and develop turgor pressure
When a critical point is reached, the ascus bursts

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What is a key step in many ascomycete species?

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The production of conidia

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What are conidia?

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Non-motile fungal mitospores that are not formed inside a sporangium

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How are conidia produced?

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They are borne on conidiophores in/on special receptacles called conidiomata

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What is enclosed conidioma referred to as?

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Pycnidia

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What is cushioned conidioma referred to as?

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Sporodochia

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What are conidiophores in a broom referred to as?

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Synnemata

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What are conidia used for?

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Asexual reproduction
The self-propagating asexual phase is known as the anamorph

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What are the names of fungi that have enclosed and non-enclosed conidiomata?

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Enclosed = coelomycetes

Non-enclosed = hyphomycetes

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What is the teleomorph form also referred to as?

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The meiotic form

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What is the anamorphic form also referred to as?

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The mitotic form

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What did Schwendener do?

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He demonstrated that there was no difference between green blobs and free-living algae
Proposed that lichens are made up of two organisms = symbiosis

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What does algae do for fungi?
Produce sugars for the fungi to consume
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What does fungi do for algae?
Protection from herbivory, fungi produce secondary metabolites that are deterrents to herbivores
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What are some common chemical tests to visualize lichen secondary metabolites?
Household bleach (C) Potassium hydroxide (K)
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In general, how are lichen named?
They are given the fungal name
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What group are both major symbionts of lichen in?
Polyphyletic groups
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What are crustose lichens?
Lichens that are so closely attached to the substrate that they cannot be removed without also damaging the substrate
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What are foliose lichens?
Lichens that are flat with an upper surface that is colored differently than the lower surface. Sometimes it has a lower surface with outgrowths called rhizines
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What are the forms of fruticose lichens?
Hair-like Shrub-like Club-like
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If we section through the thallus of a lichen, what do we see?
The upper cortex The photobiont The medulla The lower cortex
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How do lichens form?
The fungus forms a thallus with algal cells and loose internal hyphae (medulla)
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What type of algae can lichen fungi associate with?
Green algae Cyanobacteria Sometimes lichen associated with both and is called tripartite
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What describes the horizontal transmission of symbionts?
If the fungus produces spores, then these need to find a suitable photobiont The fungus and the algae need to meet somehow
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What describes the vertical transmission of symbionts?
They can disperse asexually in combined fungal-algal packets
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What are some surface modifications that serve for the propagation of lichens?
Isidia Soredia
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What are isidia and where are they found?
It is a vegetation means of propagation Normally found on the outer cortex of the lichen Fungal and algal cells are combined in a column-like structure that can break off and establish elsewhere
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What are soredia and where are they found?
powdery propagules composed of fungal hyphae wrapped around cyanobacteria or green algae Can be scattered diffusely across the surface of the lichen's thallus, or produced in localized structures called soralia
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What are the uniting features of non-lichen ascomycetes?
Typically less expansive mycelia than Basidiomycetes Many are ephemeral (appear and disappear again) and seasonal (unlike most lichens) Many are pathogens
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What phylogenetic group are all ascocarps in?
Polyphyletic
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What is apotheciate (cup) fungi?
A cup-shaped ascocarp that is polyphyletic
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What is an example of an inside-out Asco?
Devil's cigar The ascus and ascospore are pointed inside
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Many cup fungi can also have what?
Anamorphs
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Which type of fungi have evolved to capture and consume nematodes?
Cup fungi
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What do fertile pyrenomycetes possess?
A perithecium
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What are the two types of ontogeny that perithecia encompass?
Perithecium Pseudothecium
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What describes perithecium?
The fruiting body forms together with sexual hyphae
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What describes pseudothecium?
Fruiting body forms first, followed by the formation of ascus-bearing hyphae
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What do some species produce perithecia in?
A stroma where you will see clusters of perithecia
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What is found in the ergot life cycle?
The sclerotium and the actual fruiting body is also a peritheciate stroma
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What is the sclerotium?
A mass of hyphae with protective rind and containing food reserves
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What does the consumption of ergot cause?
Ergotism which causes hallucinations, itching and burning skin, gangrene, and sometimes death
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What is ergot the building block of?
LSD
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What is a cleistothecium?
An ascocarp that is round and closed and often differentiated into cleistothecia and chasmothecia (in which asci are formed at one level and the globular structure breaks open through a predetermined line of weakness
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If the globular case is formed from a net of hyphae, what is it called?
A gymnothecium
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How are asci scattered in cleistothecia?
Asci are scattered through the closed case, not embedded in a gel
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Which significant fungi do cleistothecium-forming Eurotiomycetes form?
Aspergillus = used in the production of soy sauce Penicillium = used in the production of cheese and penicillin
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How fast does Aspergillus develop?
Mycelia develop conidiophores within 16 hours of germinating, first conidia are dispenses 8 hours later = 24 hour life cycle
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What is A. oryzae involved in?
Starch degradation for making sake Proteolytic and amylolytic activity for two-stage fermentation of soy sauces
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What is A. niger involved in?
The production of most of the worlds citric acid 95% efficiency for conversion of sugar to citric acid
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When is an ascocarp referred to as a gymnothecia?
When the ascocarp forms an unsealed hyphal wad, the hyphae give rise to asci
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What ascomycete is mycorrhizal?
Truffles
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What is the exception to the anamorphic/asexual life cycle in yeasts?
Bakers yeast It does have a sexual stage without a hyphal teleomorph
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Which classes are sexual yeasts found in?
Saccharomycetes and Schizosaccharomycetes
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What does S. cerevisiae do?
Fermentation of glucose and other sugars via pyruvic acid into ethanol and CO2
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What do candida yeasts produce?
Pseudohyphae - yeasts in a chain
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What are the characteristics of candida yeasts?
Can grow as true yeasts, true septate hyphae or as pseudohyphae Pseudohyphae are intermediate between hyphae and yeasts Candida is one of the few true fungi in which the vegetative state is diploid
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What does candida cause?
Candidiasis infections
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Where are Metschnikowia yeasts found?
In floral nectar
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What happens to Metschnikowia yeasts at high cell densities?
The yeasts will eventually degrade nectar up to the extreme of depleting virtually all of its sugar They also warm up the flower interior of some winter-flowering plants
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What are the characteristics of fission yeasts?
Chitin is present only in traces in the cell wall It can uniquely split into two equal-sized cells by septation Distantly related to other years and evolutionarily isolated It is the fermenting agent of African millet beer and arak
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What triggers the hyphal-yeast switch?
Temperature: many pathogens are hyphal at 25 degrees but switch to yeast growth around 37 degrees - causes disease Changes in the chemical environment, especially nutrient starvation
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What triggers the hyphal-yeast switch in Candida?
Switching the environment to neutral or alkaline pH Carbon starvation Nitrogen starvation Cell density via quorum sensing molecules Low oxygen and elevated CO2 presence of N-acetylglucosamine
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What are saprotrophs?
Utilize already dead matter
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What do biotrophs consume?
Living organisms
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What do hemibiotrophs consume?
Tap into living organisms, continue in dead organisms
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What are necrotrophs?
Pathogens which feed by killing hosts
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How do anamorphs persist in Ascomycota?
By forming conidia
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How do teleomorphs persist in Ascomycota?
By forming asci
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What is a holomorph?
A fungus that is characterized by both sexual and asexual reproductive states
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How do anamorphs persist in Basidiomycota?
By budding
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How do teleomorphs persist in Basidiomycota?
By forming basidia
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Is dimorphism related to sex?
NO! Any anamorph or teleomorph can be either sex type, changing the state does not change the sex

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