Question

Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given.
Heterothallism in fungi was first discovered by:

• A. A. E Blakeslee
• B. C. B. Huggins
• C. Alexander Fleming
• D. Robert Whittaker

Answer 1

The correct option is A A. E Blakeslee

The fungi require two compatible partners to reproduce and produce spores. The presence of sexes in two different species is called as Heterothallic condition. The heterothallism was first observed by A. E Blakeslee in 1904.

So, the correct option is 'A. E Blakeslee'.