Question: How does the primary mycelium in Basidiomycota differ from that of the secondary mycelium?

Answer: The primary mycelium is made up of monokaryotic hyphae, while the secondary mycelium is composed of dikaryotic hyphae

Question: How is the secondary mycelium of basidiomycetes described?

Answer: Heterokaryotic.

Question: In the basidiomycetes, sexual spores are called

Answer: basidiospores

Question: What is the function of a basidiocarp?

Answer: To disperse spores

Question: Put the steps of basidiomycete sexual reproduction in order. Start with the mating of compatible hyphae at the top.

Answer: 1-Compatible hyphae mate by plasmogamy

2-Basidia form in the basidiocarp

3-Nuclei in basidia fuse by karyogamy

4-Meiosis occurs

5-Basidiospores are released