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Q: What is the function of penicillium spores?
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How does penicillium reproduce?

Penicillium reproduces asexually using spores and f the spores land on an adequate food source they could potentially reproduce and grow endlessly especially if in a dark, moist and warm enviroment.


What is the scientific name and phyla of Gorgonzola?

Spores from Penicillium glaucum are used to make gorgonzola cheese which belongs to the Ascomycota phylum.


What type of spores do zygomycota use?

Sporangiospores- asexual spores produced at the end of aerial hyphae enclosed within a sac. Rhizopus makes these types of spores.Conidiospores- asexual spores produced in chains at the end of aerial hyphae and are not enclosed by a sac. Penicillium makes these types of spores.


Why is penicillium classified as deuteromycota?

It is grouped under ascomycetes because its produces ascospores, in sexual reproduciton phase. Ascospores are sexual spores which are covered in a covering known as ascus.


What is the function of sporophore hyphae?

Produces spores.


How are asexual spores of mold classified?

They are classified by their mode of development.Sporangiospores- asexual spores produced at the end of aerial hyphae enclosed within a sac. Rhizopus makes these types of spores.Conidiospores- asexual spores produced in chains at the end of aerial hyphae and are not enclosed by a sac. Penicillium makes these types of spores.Read more: What_are_the_two_types_of_asexual_spores_of_mold


Is penicillium eukaryotic?

Each cell of Penicillium chrysogenum has a single nucleus. However, when a plus strain and a minus strain fuse hypha, there will be two nuclei in each cell, until the nuclei fuse, forming sexual spores.


What is the function of a zygosporangium?

It collects spores before to reproduction.


What are some familiar uses of sac fungi?

some are edibal like morels,called sac fungi because they have pods of spores,spores are microscopic


What is a function of a gill?

The function of gills on a mushroom is to hold and release the spores that a mushroom produces.


How does a sporangiophore function in the reproduction of fungi?

Microspores develop inside the microsporangium


What function do spores perform for Fungi and Mold?

Reproduction and dispersal