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Question
If you leave a piece of moist bread covered under a small bell jar at a warm place, mould grows on it in a few days. Answer the following with reference to this observation:
What appears first on the bread-the mycelia or the spores?
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Solution
Mycelia appears first on the bread, not the spores.
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