Spore
Of agamete.
A small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes".
This concept's ID is @1~58266
Contains
- pollen
The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering...
- chlamydospore
Thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae.
- oospore
A thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and ...
- ascospore
Sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus.
- carpospore
A nonmotile spore of red algae.
- resting spore
A spore of certain algae or fungi that lies dormant; may germinate after a prolonged...
- zygospore
A plant spore formed by two similar sexual cells.
- tetraspore
One of the four asexual spores produced within a sporangium.
- zoospore
An asexual spore of some algae and fungi that moves by means of flagella.
- microspore
Smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen...
- fern seed
The asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the...
- megaspore
Larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into...
- aeciospore
Spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium.
- basidiospore
A sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium.
- endospore
A small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae.
- conidium
An asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore.