Give the salient features and comparative account of different classes of fungi studied by you.
Basidomycetes :

Explanation

C) Basidiomycetes :
They are commonly known as Mushrooms, bracket fungi or puffiballs or club fungi.
2) They grow in soil, on logs and tree stumps and in living plant bodies as parasites. Ex : Rusts.
3) The mycelium is branched and septate.
4) The asexual spores are not found but common method is fragmentation.
5) Sex organs are absent.
6) Plasmogamy takes place by the fusion of two vegetative cells of different strains or genotypes.
7) Karyogamy and Meiosis take place in the basidium producing basidiospores. Ex : Agaricus, ustilago, polyporus Lycoperdor. D) Deuteromycetes :