Learning Objectives for "Fungi: Yeasts"

After completing this section you should be able to perform the following objectives.

 

1. Briefly describe yeasts and state how they reproduce asexually.

2. Briefly describe pseodohypae, hyphae, blastoconidia (blastospores), and chlamydoconidia (chlamydospores) and name a yeast producing these structures.

3*. Name 3 potentially pathogenic yeasts and state an infection each causes.

(*) = Common theme throughout the course

 

 

 

 

Gary E. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology
The Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus
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Based on a work The Grapes of Staph at https://cwoer.ccbcmd.edu/science/microbiology/index_gos.html.

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Last updated: Feb., 2020
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