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8 MicroBio Fungi
Chapter 8 terms (Berean)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Plasmodium | an aggregate of diploid cells that have multiple nuclei |
| Mycology | the study of fungi |
| Fruiting body | the portion of a fungus (which is usually above the ground) that produces sexual spores) |
| Vegetative structures | groups of cells that are involved in metabolic activity and growth |
| Mold | multicellular fungal structure that contain many hyphae that extend away from the mycelium |
| Fleshy fungus | multicellular fungal structure made of many hyphae that are compact and form a thallus (body) |
| Saprotrophs | organisms that obtain nutrition from dead and decaying organic matter |
| Ascocarp | a bowl-shaped fruiting body that contains the sexual spores produced via meiosis |
| Pasteurization | a heating process that reduces the level of microbes in a liquid to a safe level for consumption and storage |
| Basidiocarp | the fruiting body of club fungi that appears as a mushroom |
| Hallucinogen | a chemical that causes alteration in the perception of reality, making someone sense that what they are seeing and feeling is real when it is not |
| Mutualism | two or more organisms that live together in a relationship where they all benefit |
| Parasitism | an organism living on or in another that serves as a host and harms the host |
| Commensalism | two organisms living together in a relationship where one benefits and the host is neither helped nor harmed |
| Phylogenetics | the study of evolutionary relatedness among various groups of organisms |
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