Spore | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-05-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore


00:01:36 1 Definition
00:02:46 2 Classification of spore-producing organisms
00:02:58 2.1 Plants
00:04:07 2.2 Fungi
00:04:57 3 Classification of spores
00:05:12 3.1 By spore-producing structure
00:05:23 3.1.1 Fungi
00:06:53 3.1.2 Red algae
00:07:17 3.2 By function
00:07:51 3.3 By origin during life cycle
00:09:15 3.4 By mobility
00:10:26 4 Anatomy
00:11:08 4.1 Spore tetrads and trilete spores
00:11:48 5 Dispersal
00:14:21 6 Gallery



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In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions. Spores form part of the life cycles of many plants, algae, fungi and protozoa. Bacterial spores are not part of a sexual cycle but are resistant structures used for survival under unfavourable conditions. Myxozoan spores release amoebulae into their hosts for parasitic infection, but also reproduce within the hosts through the pairing of two nuclei within the plasmodium, which develops from the amoebula.Spores are usually haploid and unicellular and are produced by meiosis in the sporangium of a diploid sporophyte. Under favourable conditions the spore can develop into a new organism using mitotic division, producing a multicellular gametophyte, which eventually goes on to produce gametes. Two gametes fuse to form a zygote which develops into a new sporophyte. This cycle is known as alternation of generations.
The spores of seed plants, however, are produced internally and the megaspores, formed within the ovules and the microspores are involved in the formation of more complex structures that form the dispersal units, the seeds and pollen grains.