asci
Americannoun
noun
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In the diagram above, you can see the asci at various stages in meiosis.
From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2012
Some asci have elastic rings at their tips that only allow spores out once a set pressured is reached.
From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2012
But some discomycetes — fungi that produce their asci in a cup-like structure in which the fertile surface is completely exposed to the environment — have learned to synchronize their firing.
From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2012
You can count the eight ascospores in this ascus: The tasty, tasty asci of a Morchella sp.
From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2012
Carpoascomycetes.—The other divisions of the Ascomycetes may be distinguished as Carpoascomycetes because they do not bear the asci free on the mycelium but enclosed in definite fruit bodies or ascocarps.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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