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Flashcards about Eukaryotes: Fungi, Algae, Protozoa, and Helminths

Mycology

The study of fungi

Mycelium

Fungal thallus consists of hyphae and spore structures; a mass of hyphae

Fission yeasts

Unicellular fungi that divide symmetrically

Budding yeasts

Unicellular fungi that divide asymmetrically

Candida auris

Systemic infection, nosocomial, drug resistant

Cellulase

Enzyme used to remove cellulose in plant cell walls in juice production

Mycoses

Disease caused by fungi

Thallus

Body of multicellular algae

Algin

Thickener produced by Brown algae (kelp)

Karenia brevis

Causes “red tides” in Florida and Texas

Gambierdiscus toxicus

A tropical reef-dwelling dinoflagellate that produces several toxins, including one designated ciguatoxin

Oomycota

Water molds that produce zoospores

Lichens

A combination of a green alga (or cyanobacter) and a fungus

Slime molds

Amoeboid-like eucaryotic cells that have fungal and protozoan characteristics

Plasmodium

Multinucleated mass of protoplasm; exists in acellular or plasmodial slime mold life cycle

Protozoa

Reproduce asexually by fission, budding, or schizogony

Amoebozoa

Move by pseudopods

Cryptosporidium

Water-borne enteric infection

Euglenozoa

Move by flagella