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
In ascomycetes that build their asci inside flask-like structures called perithecia or pseudothecia, the asci take turns snaking to the little opening, poking themselves out, and firing.
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
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
Exobasidiine�, a family of parasitic basidiomycetous Fungi, resembling the Exoascine� in most respects, but producing basidia in place of asci, a remarkable instance of parallel evolution.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
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