Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781260211887
Author: WILLEY, Sandman, Wood
Publisher: McGraw Hill
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Fungi are eukaryotic, spore-bearing organisms and they have absorptive nutrition. They have both sexual and asexual reproductive systems. Asexual reproduction occurs in several ways. The formation of fungal asexual spores is mainly involved in asexual reproduction. Various types of asexual spores are found such as arthrospore, sporangiospore, conidiospore, and blastospore.

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