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| 716546651 | yeasts | Single-celled fungus. Reproduce asexually by binary fission or by the pinching of small buds off a parent cell. | |
| 716546652 | hyphae | One of many connected filaments that collectively make up the mycelium of a fungus. | |
| 716546653 | chitin | A structural polysaccharide, consisting of amino sugar monomers, found in many fungal walls and in the exoskeletons of all arthropods. | |
| 716546654 | mycelium | The densely branched network of hyphae in a fungus. | |
| 716546655 | septa | One of the cross -walls that divide fungal hypha into cells. Generally have pores large enough to allow ribosomes, mitochondria, and even nuclei to flow from cell to cell. | |
| 716546656 | coenocytic fungi | A fungus that lacks septa and hence whose body is made up of a continuous cytoplasmic mass that may contain hundreds or thousands of nuclei. | |
| 716546657 | haustoria | In certain symbiotic fungi, a specialized hypha that can penetrate the tissues of host organisms. | |
| 716546658 | mycorrhizae | A mutualistic association of plant roots and fungus. | |
| 716546659 | Ectomycorrhizal fungi | Association of a fungus with a plant root system in which the fungus surrounds the roots but does not cause invagination of the host (plant) cells' plasma membranes. | |
| 716546660 | Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi | A symbiotic fungus whose hyphae grow through the cell wall of plant roots and extend into the root cell (enclosed in tubes formed by invagination of the root cell plasma membrane). | |
| 716546661 | spores | A haploid cell, produced either sexually or asexually, that produces mycelium after germination. | |
| 717204196 | pheromones | In animals and fungi, a small molecule released into the environment that functions in communication between members of the same species. | |
| 717204197 | plasmogamy | In fungi, the fusion of cytoplasm of cell from two individuals; occurs as one stage of sexual reproduction, followed later by karyogamy | |
| 717204198 | heterokaryon | A fungal mycellium that contains two or more haploid nuclei per cell. | |
| 717204199 | dikaryotic | Referring to a fungal mycelium with two haploid nuclei per cell, one from each parent. | |
| 717204200 | karyogamy | In fungi, the fusion of haploid nuclei contributed by the two parents; occurs as one stage of sexual reproduction, preceded by plasmogamy. | |
| 717204201 | molds | Informal term for a fungus that grows as a filamentous fungus, producing haploid spores by mitosis and forming a visible mycelium. | |
| 717204202 | deuteromycetes | Traditional classification for a fungus with no known sexual stage. | |
| 717204203 | opisthokonts | Member of the diverse clade of Opisthokonta, organisms that descended from an ancestor with a posterior flagellum, including fungi, animals, and certain protists. | |
| 717204204 | nucleariids | Member of a group of unicellular, amoeboid protists that are more closely related to fungi than they are to other protist. | |
| 717204205 | chytrids | Member of the fungal phylum Chytridiomycota, mostly aquatic fungi with flagellated zoospores that represent an early diverging fungal lineage | |
| 717204206 | zoospores | Flagellated spore found in chytrid fungi and some protists. | |
| 717204207 | zygomycetes | Member of the fungal phylum Zygomycota, characterized by the formation of a sturdy structure called a zygosporangium during sexual reproduction | |
| 717204208 | zygosporangium | In zygomycete fungi, a sturdy multinucleate structure in which karyogamy and meiosis to occur. | |
| 717204209 | glomeromycetes | Member of the fungal phylum Glomeromycota, characterized by a distinct branching form of mycorrhizae called arbuscular mycorrhizae. | |
| 717204210 | Ascomycetes | Member of the fungal phylum Ascomycota, commonly called sac fungus. The name comes from the saclike structure in which the spores develop. | |
| 717204211 | asci | A sacklike spore capsule loacated at the tip of a dikaryotic hypha of a sac fungus. | |
| 717204212 | ascocarps | The fruiting body of a sac fungus (ascomycete) | |
| 717204213 | conidia | A haploid spore produced at the tip of a specialized hypha in ascomycetes during sexual reproduction. | |
| 717204214 | basidiomycetes | Member of the fungal phylum Basidomycota, commonly called club fungus. The name comes from the club-like shape of the basidium. | |
| 717204215 | basidium | A reproductive appendage that produces sexual sores on the gills of mushrooms (club fungi) | |
| 717204216 | basidiocarps | Elaborate fruiting body of a dikaryotic mycelium of a club fungus | |
| 717204217 | endophytes | A fungus that lives inside a leaf or other plant without causing harm to the plant. | |
| 717204218 | lichen | The mutualistic association between a fungus and a photosynthetic alga or cynaobacterium. | |
| 717204219 | soredia | In lichens, a small cluster of fungal hyphae with embedded algae. | |
| 717204220 | mycosis | General term for a fungal infection. |
