Question : Give the salient features of the class Zygomycetes.

1.	Question : Give the salient features of the class Zygomycetes.
Answer» Solution :`` Most of the species are saprophytic and live on DECAYING plant and ANIMAL matter in the soil. Somelead parasitic life (Example : Entomophthora on housefly) `` Bread MOLD fungi (Example : Mucor and Rhizopus) and Coprophilous fungi (Fungi GROWING on dung Example :Pilobolus) belong to this group. `` The mycelium is branched and coemocytic. `` Asexual reproduction by means of spores produced in sporangia. `**` Sexual reproduction is by the fusion of the gametangia which result in THICK walled zygospore. It remains dormant for long periods. The zygospore undergoes meiosis and produce spores.

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