2010-09-22

What are Spores?

A flowering plant makes new plants by means of seeds.  But non flowering plants do that mainly by spores.  All fungi produce spores.  In most cases the output is prodigious.  A single mushroom may produce 1800 million spores!  The small group of primitive plants psilopsida are spore bearing.  So are many other ferns and mosses.

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In bacteriology spores are variations of form which certain organisms assume in order to resist adverse environmental conditions that would kill ordinary form.  they can resist temperatures up to about 1000C and can survive in the absence of animal or human hosts in dust and in the soil.
Spores are invisible and can be noticed only under microscopes.  They are everywhere, in the air all around, in water, and in the earth!
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