Where does sexual reproduction occur in Zygomycota?

Answer 1

Sexual reproduction in fungi usually involves two different mating types. Because gametes of both mating types are about the same size, they are not called male and female. Rather, one mating type is called "+" (plus) and the other "−" (minus). When hyphae of opposite mating types meet, they start the process of sexual reproduction by fusing, bringing plus and minus nuclei together in the same cell. After a period of growth and development, these nuclei form a diploid zygote nucleus. In most fungi, the diploid zygote then enters meiosis, completing the sexual phase of its life cycle by producing haploid spores. Like the spores produced asexually, these spores are also capable of growing, by repeated rounds of mitosis, into new organisms.

Answer 2

No, Zygote-forming fungi produce asexually.

Two separate hyphae, a "negative" and a "positive" one, fuse together to form something called the zygospore. The zygospore goes through a bunch of germination steps (Meiosis, etc...), and eventually grows to become another mature fungus.

Note: The Hyphae are the filaments that make up the body of the fungi

Answer 3

In sexual reproduction the hyphae of two fungi grow together and genetic material is exchanged

Answer 4

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