cell wall

[chiddler]

Do all fungi have cell walls?

Do yeasts have cell walls?

not finding anything useful with the wiki page.

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[syoung]

yes fungi have cell walls
and therefore yeast as well

 

[chiddler]

can i please source you?

i asked a friend who said that most do but some don't.

 

[chiddler]

i don't normally search with google which is why i wasn't getting a very good answer with my searches.

i remembered this and

http://faculty.ccbcmd.edu/courses/bio141/lecguide/unit3/fungi/yeast.html

you're right. thanks.

 

[syoung]

LOL wiki actually has the same thing too but then again wiki is never sourceable!

 

[pfaction]

Pharmacy to the rescue!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinocandin

 

[syoung]

Pharmacy to the rescue!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinocandin

Damn those pictures of the molecules are HUGE

 

[pfaction]

Yeah, look up Daptomycin, Amphotericin, Vancomycin, uhh....I forgot another one, I think it's Quino-Dapto, Everolimus, these drugs are ridiculously huge. Straight into your vein.

 

[syoung]

wtf we should not be ingesting them, digesting them, detoxing them. **** my capillaries hurt from looking at them.

 

[pfaction]

Try taking an exam where you have to memorize their structures. No, I'm not ****ing kidding, I had to memorize a structure, and then choose which part belonged to what. I mean, after the exam it's just memorizing classes, but holy god Infectious and Oncology was like, ****.

Vancomycin is used PO to treat resistant C. diff, exactly because such a small % (negligible, really) is absorbed, so concentrated amounts straight to the C. diff.

Welcome to medicine!

 

[chiddler]

(1R,3S,5R,6R,9R,11R,15S,16R,17R,18S,19E,21E,23E,25E,27E,29E,31E,33R,35S,36R,37S)- 33-[(3-amino- 3,6-dideoxy- β-D-mannopyranosyl)oxy]- 1,3,5,6,9,11,17,37-octahydroxy-15,16,18-trimethyl- 13-oxo- 14,39-dioxabicyclo [33.3.1] nonatriaconta- 19,21,23,25,27,29,31-heptaene- 36-carboxylic acid

honestly now....

 

[syoung]

I think if I believed in God, I would thank him every day that I don't have to know structures of drugs, their IUPAC names, and their biosynthesis...

 

[Buttafuoco]

LOL I has this professor who said their final in a histology class he had as an undergrad was just one slide of some random cell type they had to identify. He said he ended up being the only person who knew it because he happened to see it on some poster on the wall or something when he was using the drinking fountain before class started.

 

[SaintJude]

Ok, cool. Fungi and Yeast have cell walls..they are eukaryotic.

And another random fact that has come up twice in my (Kaplan) FLs...shape of "coccus" bacteria: SPHERICAL...

I mean Kaplan has a huge vault of old AAMC exams so since this question has come up twice, maybe they think it's important...

 

[dmf2682]

(1R,3S,5R,6R,9R,11R,15S,16R,17R,18S,19E,21E,23E,25E,27E,29E,31E,33R,35S,36R,37S)- 33-[(3-amino- 3,6-dideoxy- β-D-mannopyranosyl)oxy]- 1,3,5,6,9,11,17,37-octahydroxy-15,16,18-trimethyl- 13-oxo- 14,39-dioxabicyclo [33.3.1] nonatriaconta- 19,21,23,25,27,29,31-heptaene- 36-carboxylic acid

honestly now....

If I didn't know better I'd say you just spit out progressive mcat practice scores followed by some gibberish.

 

[Temperature101]

http://www.differencebetween.net/science/difference-between-cell-wall-and-cell-membrane/

 

[chiddler]

dude this is about a month old...

and that link doesn't even answer the original question lol