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Lab Exercise 7: The Fungi: Molds And Yeasts

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Maha Giundi
Dr. Christos Dimos
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March 26, 2015
Lab Exercise 7: The Fungi: Molds and Yeasts
Purpose: The purpose of this lab experiment is to observe examples of asexual and sexual structures of different types of fungal structures. This experiment is to also compare and contrast sexual structures of the three major fungi divisions; zygomycota, ascomycota, and basidiomycota.
Hypothesis: I expect that the three sexual structures of fungi will appear to be visibly different and reflect the shapes they are known to have.
Methods: The microscope was brought over to the table and the plastic cover was removed. It was then plugged in and turned on by clicking the on/off switch on the side of the microscope. A prepared sample was collected …show more content…

These fungi contain ascus with is a tiny sac with pores that formed during its life cycle. Figures 6 and 7 reflect the mushroom-like porous caps with septate. Ascomycetes producing microscopic spores inside elongated sacs, 8 spores each, where fluid increase and eventually burst. Figure 8 is the body of the Ascomycete and figure 7 includes the spores of the Ascomycete.
Basidomycota are the spore producing body of fungus called Basidiocarps and composed of densely packed hyphae. They are best described as mushrooms. Basidiomycota is expressed in figure 2 and 3, easily recognized by the shape and spores coming from each point of the shape. They sexually reproduce by nuclear fusions within Basidia to make a diploid cell, which undergoes meiosis to form Basidiospores. This is reflected in figure 2 with those points I referred to before. Zygomycota, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota all perform sexual and asexual reproduction just in different ways. Their structure is the biggest part of that, Zygomycota produces balloon like spores at the end of hyphae, Ascomycota form sacs of psores at the end of conidia and Basidiomycota form densely packed hyphae. After all this examination we found that our hypothesis was correct, the sexual structures were different. Each and every fungus ends the same but takes a different route in sexually …show more content…

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