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Zygospore vs Basidium - What's the difference?

zygospore | basidium |

As nouns the difference between zygospore and basidium

is that zygospore is (botany) a zygosperm while basidium is (mycology) a small structure, shaped like a club, found in the basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.

zygospore

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) A zygosperm.
  • (botany) A spore formed by the union of several zoospores.

    • Synonyms

    *(zygosperm ): zygosperm *(spore formed by the union of several zoospores ): zygozoospore

    basidium

    English

    Noun

    (basidia)
  • (mycology) A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "basidium")