MIMM 212 Study Guide - Dracunculus Medinensis, Health Canada, Tumor Suppressor Gene

• School: McGill University
• Department: Microbiology and Immun (Sci)
• Course: MIMM 212
• Professor: Samantha Gruenheid

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I, penname from mcgill open course, hereby declare that all the resources between are true in content and are gathered from mcgill"s mimm211 introduction to microbiology course. If the information below has violated any university policies, i would eradicate this from the internet permanently. Lectures overview: introduction, terms, taxonomy, life cycles, medical mycology, endemic mycoses, candida and cryptococcus, mold infections, toxins and biosynthesis. 1941: first case used in penicillin antibiotic is isolated from penicillium fungi (ex. More frequent in diabetics and iron chelation therapy. What are fungi: eukaryotic true nucleus, cell walls composed predominately of chitin not cellulose/lignin like plants, reproduce by spore formation asexually(mitosis) or sexual(meiosis) via wind, unicellular (ex. Yeast) and multicellular structures (hyphae/mycelium: heterotrophic can"t make their own food (ex. Cell wall composition (chitin in fungi cell wall) No photosynthesis, chloroplasts (can"t make own food) Asexual reproduction (fungi usually have both sexual for taxonomical classification and. Spit out enzymes to digest then absorb exophagous (recyclers)