Biology / Unit 9 Bio 2031 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Asexual Fungal Reproduction
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The idea
Fungi reproduce asexually by fragmentation, budding, or producing identical spores by mitosis, dispersed by wind or by riding an animal.
In practice
Sporangiospores form by mitosis inside a sporangium; conidiospores pinch off, unenclosed, at the tips of specialized hyphae.
Where people slip
Asexual spores are genetically identical to their parent thallus — they introduce no new variation into the population.
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