Examples of Ascomycota in the following topics:
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- Most fungi belong to the Phylum Ascomycota, which uniquely forms of an ascus, a sac-like structure that contains haploid ascospores.
- The majority of known fungi belong to the Phylum Ascomycota, which is characterized by the formation of an ascus (plural, asci), a sac-like structure that contains haploid ascospores.
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- The fungal partner can belong to the Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, or Zygomycota.
- Lichens are not a single organism, but, rather, an example of a mutualism in which a fungus (usually a member of the Ascomycota or Basidiomycota phyla) lives in close contact with a photosynthetic organism (a eukaryotic alga or a prokaryotic cyanobacterium).
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- The kingdom Fungi includes an enormous variety of living organisms collectively referred to as Ascomycota, or true Fungi .