Sporulation - Practice Questions & MCQ

• Single-celled and thick-walled propagules are called spores.
• Spores are commonly formed in monera, protista, algae and fungi.

Zoospores:

• These are motile and flagellated spores produced in zoosporangia.
• These generally lack a cell wall.
• These are seen in Phycomycetes and many algae.

Conidia:

• These are formed in ascomycetes fungi.
• These are non-motile spores that can be formed singly or in a chain on special branches called conidiophores.
• These are produced exogenously.

Chlamydospores:

• These are thick-walled spores that are produced directly from the hyphal cells.
• These can be terminal or intercalary in position.
• These are seen in Rhizopus and mushrooms.

Oidia:

• These are formed when the hyphae break and each fragment forms a spore.
• These can multiply by budding.

Sporangiospores:

• These are non-motile spores and are formed inside the sporangia.
• These are seen in Mucor, Rhizopus.