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BIO 341 Topic Index

     Below is a list of lecture topics that Dr. Szaniszlo will cover throughout the semester.  Some topics will span several lectures. Click on the topic or use the topic index above to view the supplementary notes, associated assignments, and any diagrams or pictures of interest.

 

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      Appendix A: Fungal Classification Outline
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12/13/99
Topic 1: Course Introduction: What are Fungi?
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1/28/00
Topic 2: Outline of fungal classifications (emphasis on basic diagnostic characteristics of divisions, subdivisions and classes; discussions of the nature of spores, sporangia, asci and basidia).
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1/14/00
Topic 3: Fungal thallus types (from single cells to multihyphal aggregates) and discussion of cytology of selected fungal structures (zoospores, hyphal tips, yeast cells, etc.)
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1/21/00
Topic 4: Spores (mitospores, meiospores, and karyospores; zoospores, conidia, aplanospores, ascospores and basidiospores).
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1/24/00
Topic 5: Kinetics of fungal growth (emphasis on hyphal growth).
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2/23/00
Topic 6: The fungal cell wall (ultrastructure, chemistry and function)
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2/23/00
Topic 7: Patterns of hyphal growth (models for apical extension involving aspects of morphology, cytology and chemistry).
  See handouts   Topic 8: Patterns of yeast growth (architecture and models for budding and septum formation).
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2/29/00
Topic 9: Basic biology of yeasts (discussions of taxonomy, sexual cycles, ultrastructure, mitosis and meiosis)
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3/6/00
Topic 10: Yeast biology continued (regulation of the yeast cell cycle, growth cycle and sexual cycle)
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3/17/00
Topic 11: Hyphal aggregates (overview of the various fungal structures formed as a consequence of hyphal aggregation; ascocarps, basidiocarps, synnemata, pycnidia, etc., and where relevant, discussions of the importance of these structures to fungal taxonomy).
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3/27/00
Topic 12: Dormancy and spore germination
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3/27/00
Topic 13: Introduction to concepts of nonsexual fungal genetics (heteroplasmonosis, heterokaryosis, parasexuality).
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4/11/00
Topic 14: Genetic regulating mechanisms controlling sexuality in fungi (homothallism, heterothallism, bipolarity and tetrapolarity).
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4/11/00
Topic 15: Life cycle regulation caused by "hormones" (trisporic acids and the mucors, sirenin and Allomyces, antheridiol and oogoniols in Achlya, and the peptide hormones of Saccharomyces and kin).
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4/11/00
Topic 16: Introduction to fungal physiology and biochemistry; Introduction to fungal primary and secondary metabolism
        Review for Final

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