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What is unique about the members of the group of fungi to which Penicillium notatum belongs?
They are not important for medicine.
They are not made up of hyphae.
They are used in fermentation.
They lost the reproductive phase.
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They lack a known/observed sexual reproductive stage.
Penicillium was (and many similar molds are) placed among the "imperfect fungi" (Deuteromycota) because only asexual reproduction (conidia) was known — the sexual stage is absent or not observed.
Penicillium was (and many similar molds are) placed among the "imperfect fungi" (Deuteromycota) because only asexual reproduction (conidia) was known — the sexual stage is absent or not observed.
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