Question

Why are deuteromycetes commonly known as imperfect fung? Mention two characteristics of mycelium of such fungi.​

Answer 1

Deuteromycetes are commonly known as imperfect fungi because Sexual stages of these fungi are not known.

Their mycelium is branched and septate.

Answer 2

Feature of Imperfect fungi

Explanation:

• The Fungi imperfecti or imperfect parasites, otherwise called Deuteromycota, are growths which don't fit into the usually settled ordered groupings of organisms that depend on natural species ideas or morphological qualities of sexual structures on the grounds that their sexual type of reproduction has never been observed, henceforth the name imperfect fungi .Mycelium have a two characteristics,which is follows.

1. Mycelium is the vegetative part of an organism or parasite like bacterial colony, comprising of a mass of stretching, thread like hyphae  
2. The mass of hyphae is some of the time called shiro