Question

What fungus reproduces by budding?

Answer 1

Budding:

1. Budding is a mode of asexual reproduction.
2. Budding produces new organisms from a small part of the parent’s body.

Fungus reproducing by budding:

1. Yeasts are eukaryotic, non-green, single-celled microorganisms that belong to the kingdom fungi.
2. Yeast cells reproduce asexually by an asymmetric division process known as budding.
3. In yeast cells, budding occurs when the supply of nutrition is abundant.
4. In this, a small bud arises as an outgrowth from the parent body.
5. Soon after the nucleus of the parent yeast is separated into two parts and nuclei is shifted into the bud.
6. This newly formed bud further divides and grows into a new cell.