What are fungal hyphae and how do they grow? Are fungi eukaryotic or prokaryotic cells?
What is an opportunistic pathogen? Aside from the disease profiled in this case study, what are three other common opportunistic pathogens that may infect immuno-compromised individuals?
Why is diagnosis of fusariosis difficult? Do you think this is a common issue among most opportunistic pathogens? Why?
Answer 1:- Hyphae are the long branching filamentous structure of mycelium of fungi. Hyphae takes part in vegetative reproduction.
Generally hyphae absorbs the nutrients from environment and transport to other part of thallus for growth. Hyphae have specialized structure on tip called haustoria. Haustoria penetrate the cell wall of host plant for absorption of nutrients.
Fungi are the multicellular organism with saprotrophic mode nutrition. Fungi are eukaryote because it have true nucleus while prokaryotic cell don't have true nucleus.
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