Light micrograph of the common mould Mucor mucedo, showing its thread-like hyphae and round fruiting bodies or sporangia. Fungal spores circulate free

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Light micrograph of the common mould Mucor mucedo, showing its thread-like hyphae and round fruiting bodies or sporangia. Fungal spores circulate freely in the air. When they alight on a favourable medium, the spores germinate to produce a network of hyphae, which function to absorb food for growth and spore production. A sporangium grows at the end of a specialised hypha called a sporangiophore. When the spores are mature, the sporangium's wall cracks and disintegrates, releasing the spores for new dispersal. Magnification unknown.

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Keywords: bread, eumycota, fungal, fungi, fungus, light, lm, micrograph, mold, moldy, mould, mouldy, mucedo, mucor, mycology, nature