Choose the wrong statement for phycomycetes.
(i) Members of phycomycetes are found in aquatic habitats and on decaying wood in moist and
damp places or as obligate parasites on plants.
(ii) The mycelium is aseptate and coenocytic.
(iii) Asexual reproduction takes place by motile or by non-motile spores.
(iv) Asexual spores are exogenously produced in sporangium
(v) A zygospore is formed by fusion of two isogamous or anisogamous or oogamous gametes.
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(i) They inhabit aquatic environments, moist/damp places, decaying wood, or act as obligate parasites.
(ii) Their mycelium is characteristically aseptate (no cross-walls) and coenocytic (multinucleated).
(iii) They reproduce asexually via motile zoospores or non-motile aplanospores.
(v) Sexual reproduction involves the formation of a zygospore through the fusion of two gametes, which can be isogamous, anisogamous, or oogamous.
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