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Phenotypic switching (a.k.a. phenotypic dimorphism) is switching between two cell-types. An example is Candida albicans
Candida albicans

Candida albicans is a diploid fungus , which is capable of sexual reproduction but not of meiosis, and a causal agent of Opportunistic infection Wiktionary:oral and genital infections in humans....
, which, when it infects host tissue, switches from the usual unicellular yeast-like form of into an invasive, multicellular filamentous form. This switching between two cell-types is known as dimorphism.

Phenotypic switching in C.albicans include the switch from white cells to opaque cells in need for sexual mating.








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Phenotypic switching (a.k.a. phenotypic dimorphism) is switching between two cell-types. An example is Candida albicans
Candida albicans

Candida albicans is a diploid fungus , which is capable of sexual reproduction but not of meiosis, and a causal agent of Opportunistic infection Wiktionary:oral and genital infections in humans....
, which, when it infects host tissue, switches from the usual unicellular yeast-like form of into an invasive, multicellular filamentous form. This switching between two cell-types is known as dimorphism.

Phenotypic switching in C.albicans include the switch from white cells to opaque cells in need for sexual mating.

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