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Reproduction in Fungi
Reproduction:
Reproduction is the formation of new individuals having typical characters of the species fungi reproduce by spores. Spore is an unit of reproductions.
Asexual Reproduction:
It is also known as somatic or vegetative reproduction and does not involve the union of two nucleus or sex organs.
Methods of Asexual Reproduction:
1. By fragmentation of soma or cell sap or hyphae
2. Binary fission
3. Budding
4. Production of spores
Sexual Reproduction:
Union of two nuclei or gametes of opposite sex a gamete is unisexual. i.e. haploid.
Methods of Sexual Reproduction:
a. Planogamtic Copulation
b. Gametangial Contact
c. Gametangial Copulation
d. Spermatization
e. Somatogamy
f. Heterokaryasis
g. Dikaryotization.
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