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U Question 4 2 pts Consider that a bunch of spores were produced by a single fungus. If these spores were all genetically identical, what type would they be? basidiospores O conidia O ascospores haustoriospores zygospores

Answer 1

4. Single fungus can produce identical spore through asexual reproduction from a filamentous structure (tip) and known as hyphae and the structure which forms such spore termed as conidiospore and name of spore is conidia (singular conidium). Hence, correct answer is ‘conidium’.

Such kind of strategies required long filamentous structure to extract the nutrient from the area where quantity of nutrients is significantly low and efficiency of shorter hyphae would be lower as compared to longer one and it would be difficult to survive by unicellular yeast under such conditions. Therefore, correct answer would be ‘'a longer filamentous hypha'’.