It explores examples of non-flowering, seedless plants, such as ferns, mosses, and fungi, explaining how these plants reproduce through spores and other methods.

In this lesson, students will be amateur mycologists--collecting and analyzing various mushrooms. Through observation and discussion, students will gain knowledge of the basic anatomy of mushrooms, ...

Sexual reproduction in fungi produces spores through meiosis. As a result, these spores contain half the number of parental chromosomes. Once released, the spores germinate into tree-like mycelia ...

Anthrax spores can germinate, grow and reproduce in soil Contrary to prevailing wisdom, U-M research shows a mammalian host is not required ...

For over 100 years, it was assumed that the penicillin-producing mold fungus, Penicillium chrysogenum, only reproduced asexually through spores. Biologists have now shown for the first time that ...

Reproduction through spores ensures that the organism can survive these adverse conditions and will not die. On the onset of favourable conditions, the cyst breaks and releases the daughter cells ...

These spores get dispersed by wind, water, and animals, eventually landing somewhere that they can grow into fungal networks and start the process anew. Sexual reproduction in lichens follows a ...