question_answer 24)

  Members of phycomycetes are found in (i) Aquatic habitats (ii) On decaying wood (iii) Moist and damp places (iv) As obligate parasites on plants Choose from the following options. (a) (i) and (iv)                     (b) (ii) and (iii)                    (c) All of these                   (d) None of these

Answer:

                  (d) Phycomycetes are the members of fungi that can thrive well on dead and decaying wood as saprophytes. These prefer to live in moist and damp places and need water for the  movement of zoospore and sexual gametes. Few members of phycomycetes are obligate parasites like Phytophthora  infections causing late blight of potato and Peronospora viticola causing downy mildew of grapes.