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| refers to the way an organism obtains matter. |
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| dont require organic food, and can live on inorganics (molecules and or energy). |
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| Photosynthetic Autotrophism |
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| energy source is light, and organic molecules. all green plants & algae are photosynthetic. |
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| energy source is from inorganic compounds; main chief is carbon dioxide of all carbon. |
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| feeders on others. needs organic energy and carbon source. |
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| derive nutrients from a living host. |
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| process of chemoheterotrophic feeders from dead or decaying bacteria |
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| the single-cell'd yeast and the filamentous "fuzzy" mold are the two types studied in this class. |
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| any disease caused by fungus. diseases caused by fungi tend to be chronic and slow developing. |
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- have cell walls made of glucans, mannans, and chitin.
- eukaryotic
- all are chemoheterotrophs
- single or muticellular
- nonmotile
- all are gram (+) |
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| a long, branching filamentous structure of a fungus (two types: septate and aseptate) |
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| a whole fungus. (a mass of hyphae) |
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| fungi that have two forms; yeast cells and hyphae) |
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| formed by fusion of 2 cells. |
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| formed by cell division (mitosis) |
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| common bread mold bacteria; aseptate hyphae; asexual spores |
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| common decay organisms and source of antibiotics; septate hyphae; asexual spores are conidia |
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| the sexual spores in a sac |
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common decay organism and occasional pathogen; septate hyphae; asexual spores: conidia; sexual spores are in ascospores in a sac.
- opportunistic disease of the lungs. |
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| causes a gastrointestinal infection called giardiasis (diarrhea, fatulence, weight-loss, cramping fatigue). |
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| causes african sleeping sickness affecting the central nervous system; transmitted by the bite of an infected Tsetse fly (found in their saliva). |
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| causes chagas disease; affects cardiovascular system. found in heart muscles. |
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causes visceral leishamaniasis; often fatal.
- transmitt'd by the bite of female. |
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| intracellular protozoa with complex life cycles-apicomplexa. |
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| multiple fission; the nucleus undergoes multiple divisions before the cell divides. |
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| causes toxoplasmosis (systemic infection); inhilation of dust from cat shit. or eating undercook'd meat. |
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| cyst in apricomplexa; reproductive structure in which new cells are produced asexually. |
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| protozoa that are dormant and survive under harsh conditions. |
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- amoebas
- flagellate protozoa
- Ciliate protozoa
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latrin = poison; they are acellular (no cytoplasm or organelles). No ribosomes. And require a cell to live on.
- wont grow on artificial media. |
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| the condition in which viruses and bacteria coexist without damage to each other. |
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| the ability of a pathogenic virus to lie dormant (latent) within a cell, denoted as the lysogenic part of the viral life cycle. |
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| the main method of viral replication. results in destruction of infected cell. |
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| best method of controlling viruses at this time. |
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| weaken'd virus; usually by repeated culturing. |
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| antiviral proteins produced by human cells in response to a viral infection. |
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| retroviruses that eoncode their own enzymes |
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| a gene that can bring about malignant transformation. They are part of the host genome and carry normal cellular functions. |
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an infections particle that does not contain DNA or RNA.
Cause neurological disease called spongiform encephalopathies. |
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