NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In boletes, the basidia are located in tubes within the flesh of the cap of the mushroom. The spores are released through pores in the surface of the underside of the cap. The basidia in puffballs are contained entirely within the body of the mushroom.

Detailed explanation-2: -In mycology, a lamella, or gill, is a papery hymenophore rib under the cap of some mushroom species, most often agarics.

Detailed explanation-3: -Spores are generally produced through sexual reproduction, rather than asexual reproduction. The club-shaped basidium carries spores called basidiospores. In the basidium, nuclei of two different mating strains fuse (karyogamy), giving rise to a diploid zygote that then undergoes meiosis.

Detailed explanation-4: -Basidiospores are formed on sterigma on each cell of the basidium. The spores are actively discharged a few centimeters from the sterigma at maturity (Buller, 1958).

Detailed explanation-5: -A basidium ( pl. basidia) is a microscopic sporangium (a spore-producing structure) found on the hymenophore of fruiting bodies of basidiomycete fungi which are also called tertiary mycelium, developed from secondary mycelium.