Question

Ascus contains ............ spores.

• A. 8
• B. 15
• C. 12
• D. 10

Answer 1

The correct option is A 8

Ascus contains 8 spores. Ascomata are superficial or immersed, perithecial and ostiolate or cleistothecial and non-ostiolate, hairy or glabrous, dark coloured. Peridium membranaceous, asci cylindrical, clavate or subspherical, with a persistent or evanescent wall, usually with a thickened and non-amyloid annular structure at the apex, usually 8-spored.

Thus, the correct answer is option A.