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- While observing a fungus under a microscope,you notice a stalk-like appendage with a loosely packed asexual conidospore in spore sac at one end.This fungus mostly like belong to :a)Ascomycota b)Basidiomycota c)Zygomyta d)Nematoda e)Chytridiomycotaarrow_forwardNuclear membrane is absent in: A) Volvox B) Penicillium C) Agaricus D) Nostocarrow_forwardThe wall dividing individual cells in a fungal filament is called a a. thallus b. hypha c. mycelium d. septumarrow_forward
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