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Kingdom Fungi
    Phylum Ascomycota

_ General Characteristics
  • Phylum Ascomycota includes yeasts, molds, morels, cup fungi, truffles, and blights
  • Called "cup fungi" or "sac fungi"
  • Some have complex life cycles, yeasts have simple meiotic reproduction
  • The visible, reproductive portion of the Ascomycete is the ascocarp
  • Note that the names of many parts of the different Fungi refer to which phylum they are classified under. Anything beginning with "Asci-" is likely in Ascomycota
  • Ascus = cup-shaped reproductive structure. "Ascus" means "skin sack"
  • Karyogamy = the fusion of two nuclei in the basidium, making an n+n cell into a 2n cell
  • Asexual reproduction is common, occurs in conidiaphores (modified hyphae)
  • Conidia grow at the end of the conidiaphore and fall off to form a new colony

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