In some fungi, such as the bread mold Neurospora crassa, the arrangement of spores in the ascus directly reflects the order in which they were produced during meiosis. What is the collection of spores produced by meiosis in Neurospora crassa called?

A) unordered tetrad
B) unordered octad
C) ordered tetrad or ordered octad
D) ordered pentad


C) ordered tetrad or ordered octad

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