Question

What is the difference between basidiomycetes and ascomycetes?

Answer 1

Basidiomycetes:

1. Basidiomycetes play a vital role in the environment as decomposers of plant litter.
2. They produce asexually by either budding or spore formation.

Ascomycetes:

Ascomycetes are one of the phyla in the kingdom Fungi, which are non-mobile, multicellular organisms.

Basidiomycetes	Ascomycetes
1. In basidiomycetes, basidiospores are produced exogenously on basidium.	1. In ascomycetes, ascospores are produced endogenously inside the ascus.
2. They produce basidiospores.	2. They produce ascospores and conidia.
3. Basidiomycetes reproduce asexually by either budding or spore formation.	3. They reproduce asexually by forming conidia.
4. Example: Agaricus and Puccinia.	4. Example: Yeast, cup fungi, Penicillium