Bholu forgot and left a piece of bread in his oven for many days. He found feathery cotton like layer covering the bread. He concluded that the covering was due to a fungus. He observed the fungus under a microscope and took a picture
Help Bholu identify what the bulby looking part (a) is and what the cotton like mesh (b) is.
a – sporangium, b - hyphae
The fungus is called rhizobium. The cottony mesh that covers the bread (b) is called hyphae (sing: hypha). The fruiting bodies of the fungus produce spores. These fruiting bodies are bulb shaped (b) and are called sporangia (sing: sporangium).