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===Growth and Reproduction===
===Growth and Reproduction===
Fungal spores are able to germinate where environmental conditions are favourable. Fungal spores are the result of either sexual or asexual reproduction. When this occurs
Fungal spores are able to germinate where environmental conditions are favourable. Fungal spores are the result of either sexual or asexual reproduction. When germination occurs the spores swell and the metabolic activity increases allowing the production of tubular projections which develop into branched hyphae. Hyphal walls are thin but the cells are able to develop lateral branches at localised areas leading to a branched hyphal structure. These lateral branches result in the formation of a mycelium, an interlaced branched network of hyphae.
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Yeasts mainly reproduce via asexual division by budding in which daughter cells separate from parent cells via the formation of a cross-wall budding point.