Types of viruses
Recognized by the cell, needs transcripting
What is single-stranded DNA (ssDNA)?
straw hair flagella
Stramenopiles
Fungi are this type of eater, feeding on decaying organic matter
What is a saprotroph?
Trypanosoma cruzi causes this disease in the Americas, carried around by kissing bugs
What is Chagas disease?
H1N1
What is the Spanish flu (1918)?
This type of virus REALLY wants to go back to the good ole’ days of being deoxygenated, with a little help from his wild enzymatic friend.
RNA retrovirus
Discicristates lug around their fat masses of mDNA, also known as these:
What is a kinetoplastid/kinetoplast?
Endomycorrhizae and ectomycorrhizae describe the growth of this part of a fungus
What is hyphae?
What does T. brucei brucei eat on and keep them out of a large part of Africa?
What is a cow?
What are oomycetes and where do they grow?
"water molds", they grow on decomposing matter in aquatic systems.
These two types of viruses can be read immediately.
What are RNA single-stranded positive (ssRNA+) and DNA double-stranded (dsDNA)?
one dish, two dish, red alga, green alga
What is Archaeplastida?
Fungi pass this inorganic compound around in symbiotic relationships.
What is phosphorus?
Phytophthora infestans really got people moving with this major event
What is The Great Famine?
Why are fungi important to us?
They make alcohol, produce antibiotics, and food is produced by them.
Viral enzymes are needed to cut n’ read
What is double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)?
parasitic, anaerobic, Parabasalids
What are the Excavates?
the three classifications of fungi
What are Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, and Zygomycota?
T. brucei gambiense, one of the “sleeping sicknesses,” is predominantly found in these two regions of Africa
What are west and central Africa?
How are the Leishmania species transmitted?
What are sandflies?
requires RNA-dependent RNA polymerase to be read
What is RNA single-stranded negative (ssRNA-)?
The Alveolates make a striking fashion statement with their “subcellular bubble wrap,” also known as this:
What are alveoli?
Fungi get freaky in the bedroom by utilizing this form of sexual reproduction, where the nuclei of two different hyphae meet and mix
What is plasmogamy?
Plasmodium falciparum is the near-exclusive cause of this nasty disease, often relapsing over the victim’s remaining lifetime
What is (severe) malaria?
What was one of the first viruses to be studied in detail?
What is T4?