The black bread mold Rhizopus stolonifer and dung-infesting fungi of the genus Pilobolus are members of which fungal phylum?

a. Glomeromycota
b. Basidiomycota
c. Chytridiomycota
d. Zygomycota
e. Ascomycota


ANSWER: d

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A) type II alveolar cells B) ciliated cells C) alveolar macrophages D) type I alveolar cells E) goblet cells

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A) mouth B) stomach C) small intestine D) bloodstream

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