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Neutrospora an ascomycetes fungus has be...

Neutrospora an ascomycetes fungus has been used as a biological tool to understand the mechanism of plant genetics much in the same way as Drosophila has been used to study animal genetics. What makes Neutrospora so important as a genetic tool ?

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Neurospora can be grown easily under laboratory conditions.Mutations can be induced easily from ascus. Each ascospore can be grown further on suitable culture medium.
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