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Flashcards by Gaone Ntwa, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Gaone Ntwa
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| Question | Answer |
| Mycology | the study of fungi |
| Mykes + logos | = mushrooms + to study |
| father of mycology | Pier Antonio Micheli |
| Fungus | a eukaryotic, spore-producing, achlorophyllous organism with aborptive nutrition that generally reproduce both asexually and sexually and whose usually filamentous, branched somatic structures and with unicellular thallus (yeasts) are typically surrounded by cell walls containing chitin or cellulose or both of these substances together with many complex organic molecules. |
| aspects of the definition of fungus | 1) eukaryotic 2) spore-producing 3) achlorophyllous i.e has no chlorophyll 4) have absorptive nutrition 5) reproduce asexually and sexually 6)filamentous somatic structure 7) unicellur somatic structure in yeasts 8) cell walls contain chitin or cellulose or both |
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