Kingdom Fungi Lab With labels
Rhizopus sporangia Division Zygomycota - This is the asexual spore form
Rhizopus zygospore Division Zygomycota – this is the sexual spore (zygospore)
Division Ascomycota - Budding yeast This is an asexual form of reproduction in this group.
Division Ascomycota – the sexual spore is the ascospore.
I know they’re hard to see, but the ascospores are inside of the ascus, which is a sac-like structure.
Division Basidiomycota - Coprinus mushrooms in the woods
Coprinus mushrooms gills The basidiospores are located on top of basidia, which are club (bat) – like structures
Pointer is indicating some basidiospores – the sexual spores in this group.
Division Deuteromycota – Penicillium All members of this group reproduce only asexually (conidiospores)
Division Deuteromycota - Aspergillus All members of this group reproduce only asexually (conidiospores)