Most fungi are able to reproduce both asexually and sexually, and both methods usually imply the formation of spores from various types of sporogenous cells borne on either simple or compound sporophores. However, in asexual reproduction, hyphal cells are sometimes converted directly into spores; ...
The apothecium—a specialized structure important in sexual reproduction in the ascomycetes—is a cup-shaped fruit body that is often macroscopic and holds the hymenium, a layer of tissue containing the spore-bearing cells.[69] The fruit bodies of the basidiomycetes (basidiocarps) and some as...
As for the genome, research has shown these yeast to carry a single, linear double stranded DNA that consists of several repeated sequences. For yeast, the primary mode of reproduction is through budding. Following the copying of the genetic material, a bud is formed on the surface of the ...
Sexual reproduction in plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms could not happen without meiosis. What is the primary reason for that? MITOSIS/MEIOSIS : If you started with a cell with four chromosomes, what would happen if sexual reproduction took place for...
Sexual reproduction likely evolved as protection from environmental stresses, specifically, to repair DNA damage, often via homologous recombination. In higher eukaryotes, meiosis and the production of gametes with allelic combinations different from parental type provides the side effect of increased genetic...
, 1995). One important feature of the fungi is that many have life cycles that consist of two or more stages. These are primarily differentiated by the mode of reproduction and may be asexual, where growth and reproduction is by mitosis, or sexual, where reproduction involves meiosis. A ...
gastropods who often feed on corticioid fungi. Their excrements contain viable cells of algae and fungi who give rise to new alcobiotic coating shortly after. This type of reproduction is similar to lichen“isidia“ (i.e., specific lichen thallus structures used in vegetative reproduction). ...
The capability of sexual reproduction is distributed across the eukaryotes, including the fungi. A primary influence in the sexual interaction is the exchange of information mediated by diffusible molecules, called sexual pheromones. This chapter examine
Fungi may reproduce asexually, for instance through the production of spores called conidia (Greek for dust), which form at the tips of specialized hyphae called conidiophores. In some fungi sexual reproduction has been lost, or is unknown. ...
Most fungi reproduce using spores, but others engage in sexual reproduction involving the mingling of hyphae. Hyphae are long structures, like tiny threads, that form the main body of the fungus and extend far into the soil or other matter that the fungus is growing on. When you cut a mush...