Basidiomycetes

... correct. Thank you! --- 1. In my Campbell & Reece Textbook, the terms dikaryotic and heterokaryotic are used. Dikaryotic is used to describe basidiomycetes while heterokaryotic is used to describe zygomycetes. Since they are both denoted as (n + n), I am assuming that they mean the same thing? ...

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... are Canalon, that my credientials were not important here because anyone could be anybody on the internet. AND I am certainly not anybody's Basidiomycetes man but maybe a white angel to some. Doc44 Marchantia, take a trip and never leave the pasture. This thread reminds me of where they ...

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... the gametes [gameto-]) and "sporophyte" can't be used to refer to the life cycle of fungi. About the most dominant part of the life cycle, in Basidiomycetes (mushrooms, puffballs, etc.) the "dominant" one is the basidiocarp "stage", the "fruiting" body that has gills underneath for spore growth ...

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