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| asci | a saclike spore capsule located at the tip of the ascocarp in dikaryotic hyphae; defining feature of the Ascomycota division of fungi. |
| ascocarp | macroscopic fruiting bodies in which most sac fungi bear their sexual stages. |
| conidia | a naked, asexual spore produced at the ends of the hyphae in ascomycetes. |
| basidium | a reproductive appendage that produces sexual spores on the gills of mushrooms. The fungal division Basidiomycota is named for this structure. |
| club fungus | a fungus that has a basidium with a clublike shape. |
| basidiocarps | elaborate fruiting bodies created when the mycelium reproduces sexually. |
| mold | A rapidly growing, asexually reproducing fungus. |
| imperfect fungi | molds that have no known sexual stages |
| yeast | a unicellular fungus that lives in liquid or moist habitats, primarily reproducing asexually by simple cell division or by budding of a parent cell. |
| lichen | an organism formed by the symbiotic association between a fungus and a photosynthetic alga. |
| soredia | small clusters of hyphae with embedded algae. |
| absorption | consumption by excretion of exoenzymes to breakdown organic molecules in the surrounding s of fungi so the fungi can absorb and use them |
| hyphae | network of tiny filaments in bodies of fungi |
