Rhizopus occurs on stale bread in warm and moist season. It is saprobic and has affinity for carbohydrate rich organic food. The mycelium has different types of hyphae which are as follows: rhizoidal hyphae, stoloniferous, sporangiophores and zygophores. They all develop from holdfasts. Rhizoidal hyphae ...

These are lower group of fungi. They are without septate and have coenocytic hyphae. A both sexual and asexual form of reproduction occurs. Asexual reproduction occurs by zoospores and aplanospores. Sexual reproduction occurs by isogamous or heterogamous. This group is sub divided into oomycetes and ...

They are classified on the basis of number of factors. Few of these are 1. Morphology of fungus 2. Types of spores 3. Life cycle 4. Physiology 5. Biochemistry

The different variety of spores present in kingdom fungi are zoospores, sporangiospores, chlamydospores, oidia, conidia, ascospores, basidiospores and bi nucleate spores. Zoospores occur in phycomycetes and are mobile. The spores are naked and have flagella for locomotion. Sporangiospores do not have any flagella. They are ...

Vegetative reproduction involves fragmentation, fission, budding and sclerotia. In fragmentation mycelia break into different parts by injury or decay. Budding involves yeast. The main cell produces a protrusion which grows into a bud and forms a new individual. In fission, single cell divides into two ...

There are two genetically different mates which are involved in Heterothallism. Blakeslee discovered it in 1903. He stated that only some species can perform sexual reproduction from just a single spore. There is no structural difference between thallic types. The difference is physiological and genetic ...

Reproduction in fungi includes sexual as well as asexual methods of reproduction. Along with this there are vegetative methods of reproduction. Sexual reproduction involves fusion of two gametes. It is absent in artificial group called as fungi imperfecti. Homothallic and heterothallic are different types of ...

The fungi have long tube like structures known as Hyphae. Only yeast is derived of it. The body containing hyphae is known as mycelium. It develops through spore by the growth of germ tube. Cells of yeast form chains which are temporary in nature. These ...