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| Colony, coenobium, 2-10 or 10-100 cells, zoospores and autocolonies, monobiontic, haploid (zygotic meiosis), cells are often notched or lobed and sometimes have short “horns” or bristles |
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| Unicellular, cup shaped chloroplast, zoospores (no autocolonies), monobiontic, haploid (zygotic meiosis), isogamous. |
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| Colony, branched filament, an indefinite number of cells (the organism continues to grow), zoospores (no autocolonies), fragmentation, monobiontic, haploid (zygotic meiosis) |
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| Colony, filament, an indefinite number of cells (the organism continues to grow), zoospores (no autocolonies), can reproduce by fragmentation, monobiontic, haploid (zygotic meiosis), this genus has intercalary growth of its filaments. Each division produces an annular scar. |
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| Colony, 100-2,000 cells, autocolonies (no zoospores), monobiontic, haploid (zygotic meiosis), oogamous sexual reporduction. |
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| Colony, coenobium, 10-100 cells, cup shaped chloroplast, autocolonies (no zoospores), monobiontic, haploid (zygotic meiosis), a larger version of Gonium but close packing of the cells can make them look angular. |
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| Colony, filament, an indefinite number of cells (the organism continues to grow), band shaped chloroplasts, zoospores (no autocolonies), can reproduce by fragmentation, monobiontic, haploid (zygotic meiosis), organism has diffuse (generalized) growth and any cell can divide to enlarge the filament. |
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| Unicellular, chloroplast, autospores, no known life cycle, The cells are very small. |
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| Colony, coenobium, 2-10 cells, autocolonies (no zoospores), monobiontic, haploid (zygotic meiosis) - when known; most species have no known sexual cycle, cells aligned in a flat plate, some colonies have hair-like projections from their terminal cells. |
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Filament, an indefinite number of cells (the organism continues to grow), spiral-shaped
chloroplasts, fragmentation, monobiontic haploid, sexual reproduction by conjugation |
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Unicellular, 1 (unicellular), asexual reproduction is by mitosis followed by semi-cell regeneration
sexual reproduction by conjugation; an isthmus divides the cell into two semi-cells |
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Unicellular (only during the stage where it is not coenocytic), coenocytic (for part of its life cycle
only), siphonous, no known asexual reproduction, monobiontic, diploid, flower-like head produces
cysts that contain gametes |
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Filament or branched filament, coenocytic, an indefinite number of cells (the organism continues
to grow), zoospores (no autocolonies) and fragmentation; dibiontic, apical growth of filaments |
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Coenocytic, siphonous, fragmentation, monobiontic haploid or dibiontic, a pest of oyster beds in
the Northeast |
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Filament, an indefinite number of cells (the organism continues to grow), two star-shaped
chloroplasts, fragmentation, monobiontic, haploid, sexual reproduction by conjugation |
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Flat sheet, an indefinite number of cells (the organism continues to grow), zoospores (no
autocolonies) and fragmentation, dibiontic, isomorphic, heterothallic, parthenogenesis |
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| Coenocytic, siphonous, fragmentation’ dibiontic or monobiontic haploid |
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Definition
flat sheet, an indefinite number of cells (the organism continues to grow), there is no sterile
covering surrounding the egg and zygote, fragmentation, non-flagellate spores (monospores). |
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Definition
flat sheet, 10-100 or 100-2,000 cells, there is a sterile covering surrounding the egg and zygote,
zoospores (no autocolonies), antheridium and oogonium are surrounded by sterile cells. |
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| BATRACHOSPERMUM AND POLYSIPHONIA |
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Definition
complex branched filament (whorls of branches, multiseriate, etc.), an indefinite number of cells
(the organism continues to grow), there a no sterile covering surrounding the egg and zygote,
fragmentation and non-flagellate spores (monospores). |
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Definition
stems with nodes and internodes, an indefinite number of cells (the organism continues to grow),
there is a sterile covering surrounding the egg and zygote, fragmentation, antheridium has stalk
cells, antheridial branches, and is surrounded by sterile cells; oogonium is surrounded by sterile
cells and has corona; nodes and internodes present. |
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Definition
unicellular, there no sterile covering surrounding the egg and zygote, division of the whole
organism by mitosis. |
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simple branched filament, an indefinite number of cells (the organism continues to grow), there is
no sterile covering surrounding the egg and zygote, fragmentation, non-flagellate spores
(monospores), reproduces by asexual means (usually fragmentation) only at the northern limit of
its range. |
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Definition
| unicellular, long, narrow cells, two flagella, one emergent. |
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leathery, flattened and dichotomously branched, less than 1 meter long (some 1-5 meters), no known
asexual reproduction, receptacles & conceptacles, oogamy, monobiontic diploid, heterothallic or
homothallic, air bladders. |
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Definition
colonial, flat, discoid cells, no flagella, cells attached to a branched polysaccharide axis secreted
by the cells. |
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| unicellular, flat, discoid cells with a posterior spine, two flagella, one emergent. |
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Term
| LAMINARIA AND MACROCYSTIS |
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Definition
differentiated into a holdfast, stipe and blade, 40-50 meters long, no known asexual reproduction,
unilocular sporangia, oogamy, dibiontic, heterothallic, heteromorphic, economically important. |
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| Unicellular, ovoid, three-dimensional cells, two flagella, one emergent, lorica surrounding cell. |
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Definition
simple branched filament (uniseriatef), less than 1 meter long, plurilocular asexual zoosporangia,
plurilocular gametangia and unilocular sporangia, isogamy, dibiontic, heterothallic, isomorphic,
parthenogenesis; Meiosis occurs in unilocular sporangia to produce spores that grow into the gametophyte,
which bears the gametes in plurilocular gametangia. |
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Definition
| composed of spetate hyphae, perforated septa; asexual reproduction by conidia and conidiophores, fragmentation; no known sexual cycle |
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| unicellular; asexual reproduction by budding; dibiontic; ascus and ascospores |
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| composed of septate hyphae, perforated septa; asexual reproduction by conidia and conidiophores, life cycle monobiontic haploid with the addition of a dikaryotic phase; ascus and ascospores, ascocarp (=ascoma) a cleistothecium, ascogenous hyphae (dikaryotic) |
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Definition
| composed of coenocytic hyphae with rhizoids and stolons; asexual reproduction by sporangia and sporangiophores and fragmentation; monobiontic, haploid; gametangia and conjugation, zygosporangium. |
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| mycobiont composed of septate hyphae, perforated septa, asexual reproduction by conidia and conidiophores and fragmentation, monobiontic haploid life cycle with the addition of a dikaryotic phase, ascus and ascospores, ascocarp (=ascoma) an apothecium; whole organism asexual reproduction by soredia. |
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| mushroom-like ascocarp composed of septate hyphae with perforated septa arranged into apothecia on the surface of the ascocarp; asexual reproduction by conidia and conidiophores and fragmentation; monobiontic haploid life cycle with addition of dikaryotic phase; ascus and ascospores. |
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Definition
| composed of hyphae, septate hyphae with dolipore, dikaryotic hyphae predominant; no asexual reproduction other than mitotic cell division; is neither monobiontic or dibiontic; basidia and basidiospores, with spores completely enclosed for at least part of their life; a puffball. |
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| composed of hyphae, dikaryotic hyphae predominant; aecia and aeciospores, uredinia and urediniospores, telia and teliospores; is neither monobiontic or dibiontic; basidia and basidiospores, spores exposed, spores in sori; a parasitic fungus with two host plants, wheat and barberry. |
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Definition
| composed of hyphae, septate hyphae with dolipore, dikaryotic hyphae predominant; is neither monobiontic or dibiontic; basidia and basidiospores, with spores exposed on gills. |
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| composed of hyphae, septate hyphae with dolipore, dikaryotic hyphae predominant; is neither monobiontic or dibiontic; basidia and basidiospores, with spores enclosed in small egg-like sacs for part of their life – the sacs born in a “nest” |
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| Ploidy of primary mycelium in Basidiomycota |
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| Ploidy of secondary mycelium of Basidiomycota |
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Definition
| Ploidy of Somatic Hyphae in Basidiocarp |
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Definition
| Ploidy of Basidium before Karyogamy in Basidiomycota |
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| Ploidy of basidium after Karyogamy in Basidiomycota |
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| Ploidy of Basidiospores in Basidiomycota |
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Definition
| Ploidy of somatic hyphae in Zygomycota |
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| Ploidy of rhizoids in Zygomycota |
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Definition
| Ploidy of gamatangia in Zygomycota |
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| Ploidy of zygote in Zygomycota |
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| Ploidy of zygospore in Zygomycota |
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Definition
| Ploidy of ascogonium after plasmogamy in Ascomycota |
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Definition
| Ploidy of nucleus in antheridium in Ascomycota |
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Definition
| Ploidy of ascus before Karyogamy in Ascomycota |
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| Ploidy of ascus after karyogamy in ascomycota |
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| Ploidy of ascus after meiosis in Ascomycota |
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Definition
| Ploidy of ascospore in Ascomycota |
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Definition
| Ploidy of monokaryotic hypha in Ascomycota |
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Definition
| Ploidy of Dikaryotic hypha in Ascomycota |
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Definition
| Ploidy of ascogenous hypha in Ascomycota |
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Definition
| Ploidy of normal vegetative cell in Saccharomyces |
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Definition
| Ploidy of ascus after karyogamy in Saccharomyces |
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Definition
| Ploidy of ascospore in Saccharomyces |
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Definition
| Ploidy of somatic cell in phycobiont in lichen |
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| Ploidy of somatic cell of mycobiont in lichen |
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