NEET BIOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

KINGDOM FUNGI

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following is correctly matched?
A
Basidiomycota-Agaricus sp.
B
Ascomycota-Penicilium sp.
C
Zygomycota-Rhizopoda sp.
D
Zygomycota-Rhizopus sp.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -15.1 Introduction. The Zygomycetes, popularly known as the ‘pin molds’, are fungi belonging to the Eumycota, the true fungi that form extended mycelia and diverse asexual and sexual spore structures. The Zygomycetes are fungi that thrive in soil and dead plant material. They also have an exquisite taste for dung.

Detailed explanation-2: -Zygomycetes have a thallus of coenocytic hyphae in which the nuclei are haploid when the organism is in the vegetative stage. The fungi usually reproduce asexually by producing sporangiospores. The black tips of bread mold, Rhizopus stolonifer, are the swollen sporangia packed with black spores.

Detailed explanation-3: -The zygomycetes are a class of fungi known to cause cutaneous, locally invasive, and disseminated infection. This class includes Rhizopus spp., Rhizomucor spp., Absidia spp., Apophysomyces spp., Cunninghamella spp., and Mucor spp.

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