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a

Penicillium is multicellular and produces antibiotics.

b

Yeast is unicellular and useful in fermentation.

c

Morels and truffles are poisonous mushrooms.

d

Neurospora is extensively used as a modle organism for  biochemical and genetics work.

answer is A.

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Morels and truffl es are not poisonous but delicious edible ascomycetes.

(2) Yeast is a unicellular ascomycetes involved in fermentation of starchrich foods. It is commercially used in
breweries and the bakery industry.

(3) Penicillum is a multicellular, branched, fi lamentous ascomycetes. Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin in Penicillium that acts against Gram positive bacteria by destroying its cell wall.

(4) Neurospora (red bread mould and an ascomycete) is used as an experimental organism in biochemical genetics. It was used by Beadle and Tatum in their experiments and they proposed One Gene One Enzyme theory, for which they were given the Nobel prize in 1958.

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