A) What are conidiospores (conidia) and sporangiospores (sporangia)? B. How can you differentiate visually between a  conidia and a sporangia? ½ point

Answer:

Conidiospore: These are spores produced by certain genera of fungi. These are asexual, non motile spores produced by mitosis which do not have a protective covering.

Sporangiospores: These are another type of asexul spore produced by certain fungi which are enclosed in a protective sac called Sporangium.

Visibile difference between the Conidiospore and Sporangiospore is that Conidiospore are not enclosed in a protective sac and are borne externally on an aerial stalk called conidopohre whereas the sporangiospores are borne within a sporangium on a sporangiophore. Each sporangium can have one to thousands of spores depending on the species.

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Fungus can reproduce vegetatively, asexually or sexually. Vegetaive by budding or frangmentation, Sexual by Ascospore, basidiospore or oospore.

Asexual reproduction: Conidiospores and Sporangiospores are both asexual spores produced by certain genera of Fungi for Asexual Reproduction.

Conidiospores are are haploid, asexual, non motile spores identical to the parents and are produced by mitosis and arranged in chain at the end of the Aerial hyphae called Conidiophore. These do not have a protective covering around them. Example Rhizopus

Sporangiospore are also haploid, asexual spores but unlike conidiospore they have a protective covering around them called sporangium which will have different number of spores depending on the species of Fungi. They develop on a sporangiophore. When matured the spores are released as unit or individually by the breakage of the sporangial wall.