Anuradha was very hungry. She was searching refrigerator for some foodstuff. She found a box lying in the corner of the fridge. When she opened it, she saw a piece of bread which looked like this:


By mistake, she smelled it and then started sneezing. Identify the organism growing on the piece of bread and what made Anuradha sneeze?

Anuradha was very hungry. She was searching for some foodstuff in the refrigerator. She found a box lying in the corner of the fridge. When she opened it, she saw a piece of bread which looked like this:

Identify the organism growing on the piece of bread.

If you leave a piece of moist bread covered under a small bell jar at a warm place, mould grows on it in a few days. Answer the following with reference to this observation :

(a) How did the mould get inside the bell - jar?

(b) What would happen if the bread was not covered by the bell - jar?

(c) What would happen if moist bread was placed in a refrigerator?

(d) What appears first on the bread-the mycelia or the spores?

(e) How does bread mould obtain nourish-ment? What type of nourishment is it - epiphytic, autotrophic, parasitic symbiotic, or saprophytic?

Aman’s Biji went to the market to buy bread. The shop was very crowded. The shopkeeper picked up a packet of bread and gave it to Biji. She looked at it and returned it immediately.