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Is bread mold a saprophyte

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Black bread mold, Rhizopus stolonifer, is not a sac fungi but a zygospore fungi or zygomycota.

Red bread molds (neurospora) are in fact sac fungi/ascomycota. They are a form of sexual sac fungi (along with truffles).

(from the Mader Biology textbook 10th edition. copyright 2010. Mc-Graw Hill companies)

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NO Black bread mold is a Zygospore Fungi, but a type of Red Bread mold called"Neurospora crassa" is a sac Fungi.

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Correct, bread mold is a saprophyte. It consumes dead organic matter.

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Yes, bread mold is an example of fungi

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