Organisms with the coenocytic type resemble plasmodial slime molds, since they are formed by repeated mitosis without cytokinesis.
Organisms with the coenocytic type resemble plasmodial slime molds, since they are formed by repeated mitosis without cytokinesis. They may form rings to trap and feed on prey, and Haustoria are a parasitic type that take nutrients from plants without penetrating their cell membranes. Ascomycetes use specialized ones, conidiophores, to reproduce, and the arbuscular type grows in response to low soil phosphorus levels and forms mycorrhizae with plants. Cells in the more common type of them are separated by walls through which organelles can pass, known as septa. Forming the mycelium, name, for 10 points, these filaments with chitinous cell walls that make up the bodies of fungi.
Organisms with the coenocytic type resemble plasmodial slime molds, since they are formed by repeated mitosis without cytokinesis.
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