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FUNGUS AMONG US
Look into our eyes. Look deep into our eyes. There are no such things as molds. All molds are actually fungi. That's a bunch of fungus. This surprised us when we first learned about it.
Fungus, Fungi (pl.): Any of numerous plants lacking chlorophyll, ranging in form from a single cell to a body of branched filaments. Includes the yeasts, molds, smuts, and mushrooms.
fungus (plural: fungi). A multicellular lower plant lacking chlorophyll, such as mold, mildew, smut, or rust. The fungus body normally consists of filamentous strands called mycelium and reproduces through dispersal of spores.
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Fungus. A microorganism that lacks chlorophyll.
Fusion gene. A hybrid gene created by joining portions of two different genes (to produce a new protein) or by joining a gene to a different promoter (to alter or regulate gene transcription).
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Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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Fungus with flagellated stage; possible evolutionary link between fungi and protists.
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The fungus is Cladonia cristatella, an ascomycete. Its name is the name given to the lichen.
The photobiont is Trebouxia erici, a green alga. It is found in many other lichens as well, and also can be found growing independently.
(Science: fungus) A species of yeast which is an important model organism for biological study, particularly for genetics and molecular biology.
7.3 Toenail fungus - Trichophyton mentagrophytes
Conidia of a common fungus that grows on human toenails are shown sprouting hyphae.
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The enzyme is produced by the filamentous fungus Fusarium graminearum as an extracellular enzyme.
In general, their body plans are built on "hyphae" which are long cellular filaments which are often tightly interwoven to form the body of the fungus. Common fungi are mushrooms, molds, and yeast.
The deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico (as well as areas in South America) are home top an endemic fungus, Coccidioides immitis, which causes a disease in humans and animals known as valley fever.
Fungi are almost entirely multicellular (with yeast, Saccharomyces cerviseae, being a prominent unicellular fungus), heterotrophic (deriving their energy from another organism, whether alive or dead), ...
The widely studied common brewer's yeast-the single-celled fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae-has been a valuable model because its biochemistry and cellular structure ...
ectomycorrhizae Association of a fungus with a vascular plant root or rhizome system in which the fungus surrounds, but does not penetrate the living cells (protoplast) of the system.
ectoneural Oral (chief) nervous system in echinoderms.
fungicide - chemical or physical agent that kills or inhibits development of fungus spores or mycelium (or when used in a broad sense bacteria).
A sexual spore from certain fungus species in which spores are found in a sac called an ascus. Haploid spores found in the asci of Ascomycete fungi.
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mycorrhizae -- Symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots or rhizoids of a plant. More info?
node -- The region of a stem between two internodes, where there is branching of the vascular tissue into leaves or other appendages.
A zoonotic disease is a disease in which the pathogen, the virus, bacterium, fungus, protozoan-there are many different kinds of pathogens, of disease-causing organisms-in the case of zoonotic diseases, ...
The Fungi Kingdom is made up of a variety of different funguses. For many years, it was believed that fungi were plants. Today we know that fungi are different from plants in some very important ways.
The densely branched network of hyphae in a fungus.
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a sheath of fatty substance associated with protein that surrounds larger nerve fibers of vertebrates.
Carcinogens may be natural, such as aflatoxin, which is produced by a fungus and sometimes found on stored grains, or manmade, such as asbestos or tobacco smoke. Carcinogens work by interacting with a cell's DNA and inducing genetic mutations.
Myxomycota Division of Kingdom Protista which includes slime molds
(myxo = slime; myco = fungus)
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A virus is little more than a strand of genetic material (DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein known as capsid. Viruses do not carry out any metabolic processes and need to invade a living host (animal, plant, bacterium or fungus).
 See also: Organ, Plant, Cells, Animal, Trans
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