Observe the picture given below. Moulds on bread piece are ______.
Living
Non-living
Cannot say
None of these
A mould is a fungus that grows in the form of multicellular filaments called hyphae. It is a living organism, which feeds on dead materials.
Observe the picture given below. Molds on bread piece are ______.
If you leave a piece of moist bread covered under a small bell jar at a warm place, mould grows on it in a few days. Answer the following with reference to this observation :
(a) How did the mould get inside the bell - jar?
(b) What would happen if the bread was not covered by the bell - jar?
(c) What would happen if moist bread was placed in a refrigerator?
(d) What appears first on the bread-the mycelia or the spores?
(e) How does bread mould obtain nourish-ment? What type of nourishment is it - epiphytic, autotrophic, parasitic symbiotic, or saprophytic?
In the pictures below, mosquito and bread mould are shown. They differ in their nutrition mode because ………………