Prescott's Microbiology
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Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
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Chapter 25.3, Problem 1MI
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Myxogastria is also known as Myxomycetes or myxogastrids. It is a class of slime molds that comprising 14 families, 5 orders, 888 species, and 62 genera. Myxogastria is colloquially referred to as acellular slime molds or plasmodial. It is mainly present in open forests and also in extreme regions. For example, underwater or under snow blankets, and deserts.
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Prescott's Microbiology
Ch. 25.1 - Prob. 1RIACh. 25.1 - Prob. 2RIACh. 25.1 - Prob. 3RIACh. 25.1 - Prob. 4RIACh. 25.1 - Prob. 5RIACh. 25.1 - Describe vesicular, ovular, and chromosomal...Ch. 25.1 - Why has taxonomic classification of protists been...Ch. 25.2 - Prob. 1MICh. 25.2 - What are the functions of the stigma and the...Ch. 25.2 - Prob. 1RIA
Ch. 25.2 - What is the function of the plasmalemma and...Ch. 25.2 - Prob. 3RIACh. 25.3 - Prob. 1MICh. 25.3 - Prob. 2MICh. 25.3 - Prob. 1RIACh. 25.3 - Prob. 2RIACh. 25.3 - What is a plasmodium? How does it differ from the...Ch. 25.3 - Prob. 4RIACh. 25.4 - Prob. 1MICh. 25.4 - What are the functions of the micronucleus and...Ch. 25.4 - How does the trigger for sexual reproduction...Ch. 25.4 - Prob. 1RIACh. 25.4 - Compare how radiolaria use axopodia with the way...Ch. 25.4 - Prob. 3RIACh. 25.4 - Prob. 4RIACh. 25.4 - Describe conjugation as it occurs in ciliates....Ch. 25.4 - Prob. 6RIACh. 25.4 - Prob. 7RIACh. 25.5 - Which of the cells shown above are haploid and...Ch. 25.5 - Prob. 1RIACh. 25.5 - Prob. 2RIACh. 25.5 - Prob. 3RIACh. 25.5 - What does the discovery of a large group of...Ch. 25.5 - Compare the morphology of members of the genus...Ch. 25 - Protist encystment is usually triggered by changes...Ch. 25 - Prob. 2CHICh. 25 - Vaccine development for diseases caused by...Ch. 25 - Some protists reproduce asexually when nutrients...Ch. 25 - Prob. 5CHICh. 25 - Benthic foraminifera inhabit marine sediments. It...
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