BIOL 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mycelium, Zygote, Ascospore

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The organisms used in this lab are the ascomycota fungi sordaria fimicola. S. fimicola belongs to the fungal class of ascomycetes, or sac fungi. S. fimicola is made of haploid cells in a hyphae. A diploid cell is formed when two haploid nuclei bud off of the hyphae. This diploid cell then undergoes meiosis and mitosis forming eight haploid cells called a tetrad. The cells develop within an ascospore, and a group of ascospores is an ascus. A perithecia contains the asci (glase, 1995): fimicolahave a unique feature in their meiotic process which easily lends to figuring out a gene- centromere distance in their chromosomes. During meiosis, the crossing over of genes occurs at any area between the chromosomes. In crossing over, chiasmata occur where parts of the two chromosomes break and reconnect. This creates two separate chromosomes containing pieces of each chromosome which causes gene recombination.

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