Mycology MN

• YEAST OR MOLD: moist creamy, opaque and past colonies

  yeast
• YEAST OR MOLD: 37°C

  Yeast
• YEAST OR MOLD: Room temperature

  Mold
• YEAST OR MOLD: unicellular

  Yeast
• YEAST OR MOLD: multicellular

  Mold
• YEAST OR MOLD: facultative anaerobes

  Mold
• YEAST OR MOLD: aerobes

  Yeast
• YEAST OR MOLD: fluffy, cottony, woolly or powdery

  Mold
• Method for yeast identification

  Biochemical tests
• Method for molds identification

  Spore or hyphae appearance
• Either yeast or molds

  Dimorphic
• Yest only or mold only

  Monomorphic
• Either produce sexually or asexually

  Perfect fungi
• Can reproduce asexually only or sexually only

  Imperfect Fungi
• Fundamental unit of fungi

  Hyphae
• Mass of countless hyphae

  Mycelium
• Without cross walls

  Aseptate
• With cross walls

  Septate
• Other term for aseptate

  Coenocytic
• All are septated except

  Zygomycetes
• Aseptate genus

  Absidia, Rhizopus, Mucor
• Non-pigmented

  Hyaline
• Other term for hyaline

  Moniliaceous
• Pigmented

  Dematiaceous
• Other term for dematiaceous

  Phaeoid
• Light pigmented

  Hyaline
• Aseptated Genus

  Absidia, Rhizopus, Mucor
• Hyaline Genus

  Fusarium, Aspergillus, Rhizopus
• Dematiaceous Genus

  Phialophora, Cladosporium, Alternaria, Bipolaris
• Spiral hyphae

  Trichophyton mentagrophytes
• Nodular Bodies

  Microsporum canis
• Club shaped areas called

  Racquet
• Pectinate Body

  Microsporum audouinii
• Antler Hyphae called

  Favic chandelier
• Racquet Hyphae

  Epidermatophyton floccosum
• Favic chandelier Hyphae

  Trichophyton schoenleini and Trichophyton vialoceunm
• Root like hyphae

  Rhizoids
• Rhizoids hyphae

  Rhizopus
• SEXUAL OR ASEXUAL SPORE: Conidia

  Asexual
• SEXUAL OR ASEXUAL SPORE:  Basidiospores

  Sexual