Principles of Plant Pathology

Topic 1 Bacteriology

Topic 2 Virology

Topic 3 Deuteromycota

Topic 4 Basidiomycota

Topic 5 Nematology

Topic 6 Terminology

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Bacteriology for $100 A chemical or physical agent that kills bacteria.

Bacteriology for $100 What is a bactericide?

Bacteriology for $200 Indirect penetration of a host.

Bacteriology for $200 Correct Question: What is penetration via a wound, opening, or stomate?

Bacteriology for $300 A genus of plant pathogenic bacterium used during a lab experiment.

Bacteriology for $300 Correct Question: What is Xanthomonas, Agrobacterium, Erwinia, or Ralstonia?

Bacteriology for $400 A bacterial disease in which vectors are important.

Bacteriology for $400 Correct Question: What is fire blight, bacterial wilt of cucurbits or corn, etc.,?

Bacteriology for $500 The extracellular biopolymer that envelopes a bacterial community.

Bacteriology for $500 Correct Question: What is a biofilm?

Virology for $100 A symptom characterized by alternating patterns of light and dark green tissue.

Virology for $100 Correct Question: What is mosaic?

Virology for $200 A substance used to create micro-wounds for inoculating plants with a virus.

Virology for $200 Correct Question: What is carborundum?

Virology for $300 The most important vector of plant viruses.

Virology for $300 Correct Question: What are aphids?

Virology for $400 A disease vectored by thrips.

Virology for $400 Correct Question: What is tomato spotted wilt virus, etc.?

Virology for $500 The type of nucleic acid most common in plant viruses.

Virology for $500 Correct Question: What is RNA?

Deuteromycota for $100 The asexual spore for members of this Phylum.

Deuteromycota for $100 Correct Question: What are conidia?

Deuteromycota for $200

Deuteromycota for $200 Correct Question: What is an acervulus?

Deuteromycota for $300 The black pointed structures associated with some anthracnose diseases.

Deuteromycota for $300 Correct Question: What are setae?

Deuteromycota for $400 An asexual survival structure used by many members of the Deuteromycota.

Deuteromycota for $400 Correct Question: What are sclerotia?

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Deuteromycota for $500 Correct Question: What is a pycnidium?

Basidiomycota for $100 Structure where sexual spores are produced.

Basidiomycota for $100 Correct Question: What is a basidiocarp?

Basidiomycota for $200 Structures that are produced by certain members of this phylum and plants that are very benficial in plant growth and survival.

Basidiomycota for $200 Correct Question: What are mycorrhizae?

Basidiomycota for $300 The dark, thick-walled spore in rusts and smuts that gives rise to basidiospores.

Basidiomycota for $300 Correct Question: What are teliospores?

Basidiomycota for $400

Basidiomycota for $400 Correct Question: What is a clamp connection?

Basidiomycota for $500 Nuclear condition where two different haploid nuclei are present in a single cell.

Basidiomycota for $500 Correct Answer: What is a dikaryon?

Nematology for $100 A structure that all plant parasitic nematodes must have.

Nematology for $100 Correct Question: What is a stylet?

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Nematology for $200 Correct Question: What are cyst nematodes?

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Enlarged, multinucleate cells formed in roots by repeated nuclear division without cell division induced by secretions of certain sedentary plant-parasitic nematodes.

Daily Double Correct Question: What are giant cells?

Nematology for $400 The infective stage for most plant parasitic nematodes?

Nematology for $400 What is the J2 stage?

Nematology for $500 The first recorded plant parasitic nematode.

Nematology for $500 Correct Question: What is wheat seed gall nematode?

Terminology for $100 A disease caused by a non-living organism.

Terminology for $100 Correct Question: What is an abiotic disease?

Terminology for $200 Illustrated steps in the development of a disease.

Terminology for $200 Correct Question: What is a disease cycle?

Terminology for $300 Resistance that is not complete, ranging from very low to very high.

Terminology for $300 Correct Question: What is partial resistance?

Terminology for $400 A nutritive substance used to grow a microorganism.

Terminology for $400 Correct Question: What is a medium?

Terminology for $500 Concentration of a chemical that inhibits growth of an organism by 95%.

Terminology for $500 Correct Question: What is an ED 95 ?

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