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Sporangium vs Zygospore - What's the difference?

sporangium | zygospore |

As nouns the difference between sporangium and zygospore

is that sporangium is (botany|mycology) a case, capsule, or container in which spores are produced by an organism while zygospore is (botany) a zygosperm.

sporangium

Noun

(sporangia)
  • (botany, mycology) A case, capsule, or container in which spores are produced by an organism.
  • * 1993 , Sally Stenhouse Kneidel, Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method: Over 100 Hands-on Science Experiments for Children , page 81,
  • Scientific explanations include that exposure to light, lack of moisture or absence of food can cause sporangia' to form from the plasmodium. At least one of these three conditions has been present every time I've seen ' sporangia form.
  • * 2000 , Peter R. Bell, Alan R. Hemsley, Green Plants: Their Origin and Diversity , page 161,
  • Asexual reproduction by the production of a bud in place of a sporangium is not uncommon.
  • * 2009 , Edith L. Taylor, Thomas N. Taylor, Michael Krings, Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants , page 416,
  • The sporangia , however, are much larger: 3–4 mm long 0.7–1.1 mm in diameter versus only 1–1.5 mm long 0.5–0.8 mm in Corynepteris , and are characteristically banana shaped with a pair of elongate annuli.

    Synonyms

    * (vessel in which spores are produced) capsule, sporange

    Derived terms

    * ascosporangium * basidiosporangium * endosporangium * eusporangium * leptosporangium * macrosporangium * megasporangium * microsporangium * sporangiophore * teliosporangium * tetrasporangium * zygosporangium

    References

    * OED2

    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