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| assimilitave stage of Myxomycota (in the abscence of water) |
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| flagellated assmiliative stage of Myxomycota in the presence of water |
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| feeding method of Myxomycota |
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| stage formed by Myxomycota swarm cells or ameobas in difficult conditions, thin cellulose wall |
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| diploid phase of Myxomycota, result of karygomy between two colonies and division of zygote without cytokinesis |
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| stage formed by Myxomycota plasmodium in difficult conditions, composed of macrocysts |
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| Cells that make up Myxomycota sclerotium, each can grow into a new plasmodium |
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| layer on Myxomycota plasmodium, formation precedes formation of sporangia |
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| outside layer of the Myxomycota sporangia |
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| branched material found within the Myxomycota sporangia, made of waste material (usually CaCO3) |
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| one morphology of Myxomycota, tightly clustered sporangia |
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| one morphology of Myxomycota sporangium, similar to sessile but very large |
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| one morphology of Myxomycota sporangia, fruiting bodies which retain shape of plasmodium. |
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| haploid globose, spiny spores produced in dark lobed sporangium on a yellow stipe. Germinate amoeba |
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| Oomycota, Hyphochytridiomycota, Chytridiomycota |
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| flagella containing lateral hairs |
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| having two types of flagella, found in Oomycota |
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| flagellated spores, found in oomycota, hyphchytridiomycota and chytridiomycota |
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| food storage form of Oomycota |
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| Order of Oomycota with poorly differentiated zoosporangium, primary and secondary zoospores, and multiple oocytes per oogonium |
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| Order of Oomycota with one oocyte per oogonium, only secondary zoospores, and zoosporangia distinct from mycelium |
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| hyphae without septa, found in Oomycota, Hyphochytridiomycota, Chytridiomycota and Zygomycota (basal trait) |
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| formation of cyst by primary zoospore in Saprolengiales, Oomycota. Gives rise to secondary diploid zoospore with two lateral flagella. |
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| biflagellated diploid zoospore formed by Saprolengiales, Oomycota from zoosporangia. Encysts and gives rise to secondary zoospore. |
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| diploid zoospore produced by primary zoospore in Saprolengiales and by zoosporangia in Peronsporales. Divides by mitosis to form 2N thallus. |
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| Antheriudium and oogonium |
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| Found in gametic sexual life cycle of Oomycota, produced on same thallus, produce gametes via meiosis, fuse together. |
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| sperm found in Oomycota antheriudium, fuse directly with oocytes in oogoinioum to produce oospore. |
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| diploid spore of Oomycota which gives rise to thallus (instead of a zygote) |
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| Paraphyletic flagellated phylum of Fungi |
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| Orders of Chytridiomycota |
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| Chytridiales and Blastodiales |
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| order of Chytridiomycota with unicellular or short hyphae gametothallus, ribosome aggregations and no nuclear cap in zoospores |
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| order of Chytridiomycota with mycelial thallus, nuclear cap in zoospores, no ribosome aggregations in zoospores |
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| haploid thallus of Chytridiomycota, give rise to male yellow and female clear gametangia which produce anisogametes via mitosis |
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| chemical cue released by female gametes to attract males in Chytridiomycota |
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| chemical cue released by male gametes in Chytridiomycota to attract female gametes |
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| Diploid thallus produced from zygote of Chytridiomycota, produces zoosporangia and resistant sporangia |
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| Produced on sporothallus in Chytridiomycota, produces haploid zoospores which grow into gametothallus after dormancy period |
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| zoosporangia in Chytridiomycota |
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| one of two types of sporangia, produces diploid zoospores which form another sporothallus |
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| Phylum of uncertain placement, lacks mitochondria, aneorobic intracellular parasite of arthropods, previously classified as Eukaryote but molecular data place it in Fungi |
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| Early evolved phylum of Fungi, coenocytic mycelium, formation of zygospore |
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| anchor mycelium to substrate, found in Zygomycota |
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| part of haploid Zygomycota mycelium, nuclei travel up it to form sporangium |
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| structure formed in tips of Zygomycota mycelium, trap nuclei which form sporangiospores |
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| haploid spores of Zygomycota, formed when nuclei travel up sporangiophore, are trapped by columnella, and form a cell wall around them. Generate new mycelium. |
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| Progametangia/isogametangia |
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| gametangia of two different + and - strains in Zygomycota, nuclei travel toward each other attracted by phermonal activity. |
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| Result of fusion of isogametangia and karygomy in Zygomycota. Forms pitted covering becoming the zygospore. |
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| Result of fusion of gametangia in Zygomycota and zygote formation, has pitted covering, undergoes meiosis to produce sporangia with both + and - sporangiospores |
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| Variously shaped structures which contain sporangiospores in Zygomycota. |
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| Ascus with no means of dispersal, usually borne naked or in cleistothecium |
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| unitunicate operculate ascus |
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| ascus with single layer of asci in operculum with lid |
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| unitunicate inoperculate ascus |
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| ascus with single layer of asci without lid, bears apical ring |
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| ascus of two layers, flexible endoascus and rigid exoascus, found in species with ascostroma |
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| flexible layer of bitunicate ascus |
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| rigid layer of bitunicate ascus |
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| forcible ejection of ascospores |
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| shared characteristic of filamentous ascomycetes, archiascomycetes, and saccharomycetes |
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| unicellular fungi that asexually reproduce by budding or fission |
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| asexual reproduction in yeasts in which portion of the cell wall softens and a daughter cell forms out of the old cell |
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| asexual reproduction of mitosis and cell division, involves elongating of cell |
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| Fungus that alternates between yeast and hyphae morphology |
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| interwoven mycelium, ascocarps of ascostroma species are formed as a cavity in this |
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| reproductive structure in filamentous ascomycetes; four types |
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| ascocarp in Plectomycetes, completely closed, asci do not form hymenium |
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| ascocarp in pyrenomycetes. Flask shaped, contains hymenium and sometimes sterile filaments, ostiole opening |
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| ascocarp in Discomycetes: asci form hymenium which is completely exposed at maturity, paraphyses typically present |
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| fertile layer composed of basidia or asci |
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| ascocarp found in Loculoascomycetes: cavity formed in stroma, no ascopcarp wall, bitunicate asci |
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| hyphae produced from ascospores and basidiospores: one nucleus per cell, can fuse with another hyphae |
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| hyphae with two nuclei per septa |
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| sterile filaments borne among asci on base of hymenium |
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| hyphae produced from ascocarp, dikaryonic |
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| reproductive structure on monokaryon. Nuclei from antheridia transferred here via trichogyne |
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| formed on monokaryon in filamentous ascomycetes. Nuclei from here are transferred to ascogonium via trichogyne |
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| tube in which nuclei from antheridium are transferred to ascogonium |
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| conidia/conidium (filamentous ascomycetes) |
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| asexual reproductive structure, anamorph, chains formed on filament |
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| conidiophore (ascomycetes) |
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| stalk on which conidia are born in anamorph ascomycetes |
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| asexual stage of some species of filamentous ascomycetes, can have different epithet from sexual stage |
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| sexual stage of some filamentous ascomycetes, can have different epithet from asexual stage |
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| name refers to both anamorph and telomorph stages of a species (which may have different epithets based on stage) |
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| sexual reproductive structure common to Basidiomycota, produces basidiospores |
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| spores in sexual life cycle of Basidiomycota, forcibly ejected from basidium except in Gasteromycetes, give rise to monokaryons |
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| Sexually reproductive structure produced in Basidomycetes, entirely dikaryotic |
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| characteristic of a mushroom (Agaricales, Basidomycetes) |
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| hymenium with pores containing basidia and basidiospores, characteristic of some Aphyllosporales (Basidomycetes) |
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| spines or toothed hymenium, characteristic of some Aphyllosporales (Basidomycetes) |
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| cruciate septate basidium |
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| basidium morphology characteristic of order Tremellales (Basidiomycetes) |
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| transversely septate basidium |
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| basidium morphology characteristic of order Auriculariales (Basidiomycetes) |
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| basidium morphology characteristic of order Dacrymycetales (Basidiomycetes) |
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| "Jelly Fungi" orders of class Basidiomycetes |
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| Sepatate or deeply lobed basidium: Auriclariales, Tremellales, Dacrymycetales |
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| order in class Basidiomycetes, gilled mushrooms |
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| order in class Basidiomycetes, usually dimitic or trimitic (containing generative and binding and/or skeletal hyphae), causing variation in texture |
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| informal classification within class Basidiomycetes, includes puffballs. Alternate dispersal mechanisms to forcible discharge of basidiospores. |
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| Gasteromycetes fungi, composed of gleba covered by peridium, basidiospores not forcibly ejected from basidium |
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| basidia and basidiospore part of basidiocarp in Gasteromycetes, covered by peridium |
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| dispersal mechanisms in Gasteromycetes |
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| flexible peridium that "puffs" spores into air with slight pressure, dispersal by flies in stinkhorns, raindrop splash mechanism |
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| raindrop dispersal of basidiospores |
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| Gasteromycetes dispersal mechanism: impact splashes out peridiole (egg), hapteron sticks onto substrate and funiculus wraps around substrate |
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| morphologically intermediate between mushrooms and puffballs |
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| needs two hosts to complete life cycle (Uredinomycetes, Basidiomycota) |
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| Part of Uredinomycetes life cycle, infects wheat, produces telium |
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| part of life cycle of Uridinomycetes and Ustomycetes, produces basidium |
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| spermogonium/spermatia/receptive hyphae |
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| part of Uridinomycetes life cycle, produced by monokaryon germinated from basidiospores, produces aecium and aeciospores |
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| part of Uredinomycetes life cycle, formed from spermatia carried to receptive hyphae, infects wheat to complete life cycle |
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| class in Basidiomycota, has complex life cycle of 2-5 stages, rusts |
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| class in Basidiomycota, basidiospore and teliospore stages present, only one host required, sex organs absent (smuts) |
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| Fungi phylum with only asexual reproduction in nature, form taxon (artificial classifiation) based on conidia morphology |
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| Deuteromycetes: genetic recombination not based on sexual reproduction, consits of heterkaryon formation, diploidization, mitotic crossing over and haploidization |
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| asexual fruiting body that prodices conidia in some species of Deuteromycetes |
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| plate-like structure on which conidiophore and conidia are borne (Deuteromycota) |
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| loose association where a smaller organism is using a larger one for transport |
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| fragments of algal layer that is dispersed through a rupture in the upper cortex of lichen. Each can give rise to new lichen |
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| outgrowth of lichen thallus that fragments to give rise to another lichen |
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| symbiotic relationship between plant roots and a fungus, enhances minerap transport and drought/pathogen resistance |
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| forms external sheat around root tip, does not penetrate cells of root |
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| mycelium penetrates root cells |
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