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    • Antheridium

      A male reproductive organ found in ascomycota.

    • Ascogonium

      The female reproductive organ of ascomycota

    • Ascogonius hypha

      A dikaryotic hypha that grows out of a fertilized ascogonium.

    • Ascus

      The reproductive structure of ascomycota in which fusion, meiosis, and spore formation take place.

    • Basidioma

      The fruiting body of basidiomycota in which basidia form.

    • Basidium

      The club-shaped reproductive structure of basidiomycota in which fusion, meiosis, and spore formation take place.

    • Binucleate

      Having two nuclei.

    • Budding

      Asexual reproductive process in which a small portion of the cell membrane and cytoplasm receive a nucleus and pinch off from the parent cell.

    • Cellulose

      A major component of plant and algal cell walls. Compare with chitin.

    • Chitin

      A major component of fungal cell walls that is not found in the cell walls of any other group. Compare with cellulose.

    • Clamp connection

      The structure by which basidiomycota cells divide while retaining their binucleate dikaryotic condition.

    • Conidiophore

      Structure in which asexually-produced spores called conidia are formed.

    • Dikaryotic

      Having two distinct sets of genetic information.

    • Gametangia

      In zygomycota, the cells which fuse to become the zygote.

    • Fruiting body

      A general term for elaborate structures that contain spore-forming cells.

    • Hypha

      Individual filaments of fungal cells; compare with mycelium.

    • Karyogamy

      The fusion of two nuclei.

    • Mycelium

      The usually underground portion of a fungus that is haploid and sprouts from a spore.

    • Plasmogamy

      Fusion of the plasma membranes of two cells.

    • Rhizoid

      The sub-surface hyphae of zygomycota specialized for food absorption

    • Sporangiophores

      Filamentous stalk on which a sporangium forms.

    • Sporangium

      Spore producing structure of zygomycota.

    • Stolon

      The hyphae that connect groups of rhizoids and sporangiophores, usually above the surface.

    • Symbiont

      An organism that lives in close association with another, to the benefit of one or both organisms.

    • Trichogyne

      Specialized cell on the end of the ascogonium. During mating, the trichogyne grows to connect the ascogonium to the antheridium.

    • Zygospore

      The heavily encasulated structure that forms from the zygote of zygomycota

    • Zygote

      The diploid cell that results from the fusion of two gametes or gametangia during fertilization.

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