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kennethhartley on November 2, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ascospore | sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus |
| Ascus | saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes |
| Basidiospore | a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium |
| Basidium | a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections |
| Budding | reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent |
| Chitin | in the cell wall of hyphae, a polysaccharide that also makes up the exoskeleton of insects, crustaceans, and other anthropods |
| Condium | tiny fungal spore that forms at the tips of specialized hyphae in ascomycetes |
| Fruiting body | an organ specialized for producing spores |
| Gametangium | cell or organ in which gametes develop |
| Lichen | any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes |
| Mycelium | the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae |
| Mycorrhizae | symbiotic relationships between fungal hyphae and plant roots |
| Saprobe | Organism that obtains food from decaying organic matter |
| Rhizoid | any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc |
| Sporangiophore | stalk bearing one or more sporangia |
| Sporangium | organ containing or producing spores |
| Stolon | a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips |
| Zygospore | a plant spore formed by two similar sexual cells |
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