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In Spirogyra sometimes the gaemetes beha...

In Spirogyra sometimes the gaemetes behave directly as zygospores without fusion. Such reproductive bodies are called

A

Azygospores

B

Hypnospores

C

Zygospores

D

Aplanospores

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Azygospore is also known as parthenospore due to physiological condition gametes fail to fuse and behave as spore.
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