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-King Protista, Domain Eukarya
-Unicellular, eukaryotes that lack cell wall

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Protozoa

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The word protozoa came from the Greek word _________ meaning the first animal.

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Protozoon

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-Mostly heterotrophic and most free-living - scavenge on dead plants and animals and even feed on live bacteria and algae.
- a few are parasitic/pathogenic feed directly on host fluids or can actively feed on tissues.

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Protozoa

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-Microscopic (size ranges from 3-300 microns.)
- adapted to a wide range of habitats like fresh and marine waters, soil, plants and animals.

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Protozoa

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-Main limiting factor for survival is water.
- A large no of species can form cyst.

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Protozoa

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Protozoa with motile feeding stage

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The trophozoite of Giardia

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-It can survive adverse environmental conditions ( an important factor in the spread of disease like amoebic dysentry ).

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Cyst

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Protozoa reproduce asexually by _______.

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Mitotic cell division and binary fission

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Parasitic protozoan ones reproduce asexually inside the host cell by _______.

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Multiple fission

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Protozoan sexual reproduction is called ?

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Conjugation

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This one of the bases in classification of Protozoa.

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Motility

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This method of asexual reproduction, there is a separation of the parent cell into two new daughter cells.

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Binary fission

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This method the nucleus undergoes repeated division to produce a large number of nuclei. Each nucleus along with little bit of cytoplasm forms a membrane around it.

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Multiple fission

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4 main type classification of Protozoans.

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-Flagellates
-Sarcodina
-Ciliates
-Sporozoates

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Move by flagella or tail-like structure

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Flagellates

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Move by pseudopodia or false feet

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Sarcodina

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Move through cilia (fine hair-like structure attached to their body).

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Ciliates

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It is non-motile form protozoa

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Sporozoates

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Is a parasite that lives in the lower genital tract of women and the urethra and prostate of men

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Trichomonas vaginalis

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It lives as a parasite in the blood, lymph, lymph nodes, spleen, or cerebrospinal fluid of man and in the intestine of blood-sucking fly Glossina palpalis (Tsetse fly).

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Trypanosoma gambiense

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It can be found in lakes, ponds, rivers and streams worldwide, as well as in public water supplies, wells, cisterns, swimming pools, water parks and spas.

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Giardia intestinalis

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It is a species of Leishmania that causes leishmaniasis, a parasitic infection that is transmitted by the bite of an infected sandfly

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Leishmania panamensis

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Achlorophyllous, Eukaryotic, spore bearing

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Fungi

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Fjngi-like:glucan
Fungi: ___&&&

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Chitin

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Unicellular fungi
Yeast
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Multicellular fungi?
Molds and mushrooms
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Microscopic fungi?
Molds and yests
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Macroscopic fungi?
Mushrooms and puffballs
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Eukaryotic, unicellular fungi
Yeast
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-Usually spherical or oval -reproduce asexually by budding and fission and sexually by spores called ascospores.
Yeast
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Considered the most important single microorganism from an industrial standpoint (Important in alcohol and wine production, leavening of the bread and etc.)
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Considered the most important single microorganism from an industrial standpoint (Important in alcohol and wine production, leavening of the bread and etc.)
Yeast
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-Differentiated from bacteria by their larger size and having a Eukaryotic cell (with true nucleus). - flourish in habitats where sugars are found such as ftuits, flower and bark of trees. - cell wall is made of glucan, Mannan, protein,lipid and glucosamine.
Yeast
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Yeast/ microscopic organisms that are absent in Mannan in their cell wall
Schizosaccharomyces, Nadsonia, and Rhodotorula.
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What are the group of yeast?
Ascomycetous yeast Basidiomycetous yeast Deuteromycetous yeast
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Example of ascomycetous yeast?
Saccharomyces, Schizosaccharomyces, Nadsonia
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Example of Basidiomycetous yeast
Leucosporidium, Rhodosporidium
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Example of Deuteromycetous yeast?
Rhodotorula, Candida, Torulopsis
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Brewer's yeast?
Saccharomyces cerivisiae
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Cause thrush disease to human?
Candida albicans
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CH3COCHOOH
Pyruvate
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CH3CH2OH
Ethyl alcohol
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CH3CHO
Acetaldehyde
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Chemical formula of acetic acid
(CH3CHECOOH) + H2O
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-Eucaryotic and multicellular -filamentous fungi -cell wall mostly contain, a polymer of N- acetylglucosamine
Molds
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True or false. Molds is Autotrophic with most being saprophytic while others are parasitic or pathogenic.
False.... heterotrophic
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True or false. Molds do not have enzymes for digesting a wide variety of substances like feathers, hair, cellulose, etc.
False....Have enzymes
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It is a threadlike structure of molds
Hyphae
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It is intertwined together to form the body of the mold.
Mycelium
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The molds reproduce sexually and asexually by ______
Spores
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It causes diseases e.g dermatomycoses and majority of pylants diseases.
Molds
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What are the classification of hyphae based on structure?
Septated Nonseptated or coenocytic or no cross wall
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With cross walls dividing hyphae into segments
Septated
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Consist of one long, continuous cell not divided into compartments.
Nonseptated or coenocytic
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What are the classification of hyphae based on function?
Vegetative Reproductive
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Product of mitotic division of a single parent cell
Asexual spores
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Examples of molds that produce asexual spores?
Rhizopus
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2 types of reproduction of molds?
Asexual spores Sexual spores
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Formed by a successive division of a sac-like head called sporangium, attached to a stalk, the sprorangiosphores.
Sporangiospores
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2 types of asexual spores
Sporangiospores Conidiospores or conidia
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Free spores not enclosed by a spore-bearing sac.
Conidiospores or conidia
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Types of conidiospores or conidia?
1.Arthrospore 2. Chlamydospore 3. Blatospore 4. Phialospore 5. Microconidium and macrocnidium 6. Porospores
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Rectangular spores formed when septate hyphae fragment at cross walls
Arthrospores
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Causing powdery mildew disease of crops.
Oidium sp.
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-Spherical conidium formed by thickening of hyphal cell. - release when hyphae fractures; serve as survival or resting cell.
Chlamydospores
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Example of chlamydospores
Fusarium sp.
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Produced by budding from a parent cell; also called bud
Blastospores
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A conidium that is budded from the mouth of a vase shaped spore-bearing cell called phialide.
Plialospore
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Example of phialospore?
Aspergillus
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Small and Large conidia formed by same fungus
Microconidium and macrocnidium
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Conidia that is made up of one-celled
Microconidia
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Conidia is made up of 2 more cells.
Macroconidia
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A conidium that grows out through small spores in the spore-bearing cell
Porospores
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Example of porospores
Phoma sp.
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Formed from fusion of fertile hyphae of 2 different strains, union of differentiated male and female structures and development of special fruiting structures.
Sexual spores
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Type of sexual spores?
Zygospores Ascospores Basidiospores
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Diploid spores formed when hyphae of opposite strains fuse and create a diploid zygote that swells.
Zygospores
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Zygospores is produced by what fungal class?
Zygomycetes
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Example of molds that produces zygospores?
Rhizopus
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-Haploid spores found inside a sac called ascus (asci) -produced by fungal class ascomycetes
Ascospores
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Sexual stage of of Oidium sp. the powdery mildew fungus.
Erysiphe sp.
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Haploid sexual spores formed on the outside of a club-shaped cell called basidium.
Basidiospores
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Basidiospores is produce by what fungal class?
Basidiomycetes
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Example of organisms that produce basidiospores?
Mushrooms -Agaricus sp. Or Volvariella sp.
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Perfect fungi?
Amastigomycota
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Do not produce spores ?
Mastigomycota
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Produce sexual and asexual spores?
Amastigomycota
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Imperfect fungi?
Mastigomycota
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2 subkingdom of fungi?
Amastigomycota Mastigomycota
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Zygospores: Ascospores: ascomycota
Zygomycota
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Asexual spores of Zygomycota?
Mostly sporangiospores; conidia
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Hyphae of zygomycota?
Usually nonseptated, if septated, it is incomplete
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Example of zygomycota?
Rhizopus artocarpi Chaonephora cucurbitarum
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Causes fruitlet rot of jackfruit
Rhizopus artocarpi
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Causes fruitlet rot of jackfruit; also affects flower and fruits of squash.
Chaonephora cucurbitarum
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Class of ascomycota
Ascomycetes
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Sexual spores of ascomycota?
Ascospores
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Asexual spores of ascomycota?
Many types of conidia
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With porous septa of ascomycota?
Microsporum Trichophyton Epidermophyton
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Casuses post harvest diseases
Talaromyces (sexual) Penicillium ( asexual)
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Causes rots of vegetables
Eurotium (sexual) Aspergillus ( asexual)
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Sexual spores of basidiomycota
Basidiospores
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Asexual spores of basidiomycota?
Conidiospores, uredo spores
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Incompletely septate hyphae fleshy fruiting bodies are common
Hyphae
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Causes corn rust?
Puccinia polysora
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Causes peanut rust?
Puccinia arachidis
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Causes corn smut?
Ustilago maydis
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Example of mushroom in basidiomycota
Volvariella volvacea
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Rats ear fungi?
Auricularia auricola
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Produces only asexual spores (imperfect fungi)
Subkingdom mastigomycota
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Division of mastigomycota?
Deuteromycota
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They have asexual spores such as the conidia of various types (e.g. arthrospores, chlamydospores, porospores and etc.
Deuteromycota
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Do not form spores but produce sclerotial bodies.
Mycelia sterilia group
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Causes mungbean wilt?
Sclerotium rolfsii
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Causes brown of spot of corn.
Helminthosporium maydis (Dreschlera maydis, Bipolaris maydis)
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Causes mango anthracnose?
Colletotrichum gloeosporioidis
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Causes sheath blight of rice and rots in vegetables and other crops.
Rhizoctonia solani
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Causes wilts in several ctops like tomato, beans, and some fruit tree seedlings and rots in some fruits.
Sclerotium rolfsii
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Formerly under kingdom fungi then Kingdom chromista.
Kingdom Straminopila
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Commonly called fungal-like organisms
Kingdom Straminopila
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He watermolds
Class oomycetes
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Asexual spores of straminopila
Sporangiospores in a sporangium
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sexual spores of straminopila
Oospores
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Hyphae of straminopila
Coenocytic (nonseptated)
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Causes damping off of seedlings
Pythium
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Caused the potato famine in Europe(due to potato light blight epidemic)
Phytophthora infestans
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Causes decline and seedling dieback and also cause cacao pod rot
Pytophthora palmivora
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Causes downy mildew of cucurbits
Pseudoperonospora cubensis

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