NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -There are about 25, 000 species that have been classified in the deuteromycota and many are basidiomycota or ascomycota anamorphs. Fungi producing the antibiotic penicillin and those that cause athlete’s foot and yeast infections are algal fungi.

Detailed explanation-2: -Penicillium is an important genus of phylum ascomycota, found in the natural environment as well as in food and drug production.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some of the examples of the Deuteromycetes are Cercospora, Colletotrichum, Trichoderma, Pyricularia, and Fusarium. Cercospora: It’s an ascomycete fungus genus.

Detailed explanation-4: -The deuteromycetes, commonly called molds, are “second-class” fungi that have no known sexual state in their life cycle, and thus reproduce only by producing spores via mitosis, This asexual state is also called the anamorph state.

Detailed explanation-5: -Other names for the Deuteromycota have included Deuteromycetes and Fungi imperfecti. Currently these fungi are most often called anamorphic fungi, or mitosporic fungi, but these are informal terms without taxonomic rank.