Question

What are Phycomycetes in biology?

Answer 1

Phycomycetes:

1. It is a class of lower fungi in which mycelium is aseptate and coenocytic.
2. It includes the simplest members of true fungi.
3. It consists of a well-developed sexual as well as an asexual cycle of reproduction.
4. The somatic body may directly participate in the asexual cycle or may form sporangium which produces spores asexually.

Examples:

Rhizopus (bread mold), Mucor (dung mold), and Albugo (parasitic).