NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Most filamentous fungi are predominantly haploid throughout their life (figure 1a). They start their life cycle by germination of a meiotic haploid spore to form a mycelium that grows vegetatively and can reproduce asexually by fragments or by specifically formed dispersal units, the conidia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Yeast reproduce asexually by budding. Other fungi reproduce asexually by producing spores. Sexual reproduction occurs when spores from two parents fuse and form a zygospore.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fungi usually reproduce both sexually and asexually. The asexual cycle produces mitospores, and the sexual cycle produces meiospores. Even though both types of spores are produced by the same mycelium, they are very different in form and easily distinguished (see above Sporophores and spores).

Detailed explanation-4: -Asexual reproduction occurs either with vegetative spores or through mycelia fragmentation where the fungal mycelium separates into pieces and each piece then grows into a separate mycelium. Fungi imperfecti and deuteromycota lack an observable sexual cycle.

Detailed explanation-5: -Spores may be produced either directly by asexual methods or indirectly by sexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction in fungi, as in other living organisms, involves the fusion of two nuclei that are brought together when two sex cells (gametes) unite.