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| chitin | complex carbohydrate that makes up the cell walls of fungi; also found in the external skeletons of arthropods |
| hypha | tiny filament that makes up a multicellular fungus or a water mold |
| mycelium | many hyphae tangled together into a thick mass; comprises the bodies of multicellular fungi |
| fruiting body | slender reproductive structure that produces spores and is found in some funguslike protists; reproductive structure of fungus that develops from a mycelium |
| sporangium | structures in ferns and some fungi that contains spores |
| sporangiophore | specialized hyphae where sporangia are found |
| zygospore | resting spore that contains zygotes formed during the sexual phase of a mold's life cycle |
| rhizoid | in fungi, a rootlike hypha that penetrates the surface of an object; in mosses, a long, thin cell that anchors the moss to the ground and absorbs water and minerals from the surrounding soil |
| stolon | in fungi, a stemlike hypha that runs along the surface of an object; in plants, a long, trailing stem that produces roots when it touches the ground |
| gametangium | gamete-producing structure found in mold |
| conidium | tiny fungal spore that forms at the tips of specialized hyphae in ascomycetes |
| ascus | structure within the fruiting body of an ascomycete in which two nuclei of different mating types fuse |
| ascophore | haploid spore produced within the ascus of ascomycetes |
| budding | asexual process by which yeasts increase in number; process of attaching a bud to a plant to produce a new branch |
| basidium | spore-bearing structure of a basidiomycete |
| basidiospore | spore in basidiomycetes that germinates to produce haploid primary mycelia |
| saprobe | organism that obtains food from decaying organic matter |
| lichen | symbiotic association between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism |
| mycorrhiza | symbiotic association of plant roots and fungi |
