Which type of fungi are also called bracket fungi?

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How do fungi form partnership with most plants?

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Neurospora, an Ascomycetes fungus has been used as a biological tool to understand the mechanism of plant genetics much in the same way as Drosophila has been used to study animal genetics. What makes Neurospora as a genetic tool?

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What is the characteristic feature of class-Ascomycetes?

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Which protists show symbiotic relationship?How is this relation carried out?

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Suppose you accidentally find an old preserved permanent slide without a label. In your effort to identify it, you place the slide under microscope and observe the following features
(i)  Unicellular
(ii)  Well-defined nucleus
(iii) Biflagellate, one flagellum lying longitudinally and other transversely.
What would you identify it as? Can you name the kingdom it belongs to?

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