ascus
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asci
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noun
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asci
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Etymology
Origin of ascus
1820–30; < New Latin < Greek askós bag, sac
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A dikaryotic ascus that forms in the ascocarp undergoes karyogamy, meiosis, and mitosis to form eight ascospores.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
A diploid ascus that forms in the ascocarp undergoes karyogamy, meiosis, and mitosis to form eight ascospores.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The zygote undergoes meiosis without cell division, resulting in an ascus with four 1n nuclei arranged in a row.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
You can count the eight ascospores in this ascus: The tasty, tasty asci of a Morchella sp.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 5, 2012
The central cell becomes the single ascus, which is characteristic of the species, and the layer which surrounds it constitutes the inner wall of its perithecium.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
In the diagram above, you can see the asci at various stages in meiosis.
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
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
In the Helvellaceae there is no apothecium but a large irregular fruit body which at maturity bears the asci on its surface.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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