Botany

Rhizopus

Rhizopus is a type of fungus that belongs to the class Zygomycetes, as its species produce zygospore in the sexual reproductive phase. They are also called bread, black or pin mould. These can reproduce by vegetative, asexual and sexual methods through fragmentation, sporangiospores and zygospores formation, respectively. Rhizopus species are cosmopolitan in distribution. It grows …

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Aspergillus

Aspergillus is a common fungus, which is present everywhere (in the soil, air, water etc.), or we can say it is present in a wide range of conditions. Therefore, these are ubiquitous in nature. It consists of several 100-500 species, among which some are economically important, and some are deleterious, i.e. pathogenic. It was named …

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