Question | Answer |
What are the Eucaryotic Microbes? | Fungi
Protozoa
Parisitic Worms
Algae |
Macroscopic Fungi | Mushrooms, Puff Balls, Gill Fungi |
Microscopic Fungi | Molds Yeasts |
Yeast | Round, Ovoid Shape, Asexual reproduction |
Hyphae | Long filamentousm fungi or molds |
Dimorphic | Characteristics of some pathogenic molds |
Fungal Nutrition | heterotrophic, Majority are harmless living off of dead plants and animals, temp 20-49 degrees celsius, Some are parasites, living on the tissues of other organisms, None are obligate |
Yeast | Soft uniform texture and appearance |
Filamentous | Mass of hyphae calld mycelium, Cottony, hairy, vevelty, may be divided by septate |
Vegatative Hyphae | digest and absorb nutrients |
reproductive hyphae | produces spores for reproduction |
Asexual reproduction of fungus | Spores are formed through budding or mitosis. Connidia or sporangiospheres |
Sexual reproduction of fungus | spores are formed following fusion of male and female strates and formation of sexual structure |
zygomycota | Zygospores sporangiospores and some conidia |
Ascomycota | ascospores and conidia |
Basidiomycota | conidia |
Chytridomycota | majority are yeasts and molds no sexual spores known. Conidia |