Q. 10 Draw the sketches of a zoospore and a conidium. Mention two dissimilarities between them and atleast one feature common to both
structures.
The feature common to zoospores and conidia is that both of these are the asexual reproductive structures, which facilitate the process of reproduction in asexually reproducing organisms.
The two dissimilarities between these (zoospore and conidium) are as follows
| Zoospore (Found usually in Algae) | Conidium (Found usually in Funqi) |
| Flagellated Formed inside a sporangium (endogenously) | Non-flagellated Formed at the tip of conidiophores (exogenously) |
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