At crayfish boils or other meals where the entire body of the crayfish is presented, other portions, such as the claw meat, may be eaten. Claws of larger boiled specimens are often pulled apart to access the meat inside.
An ascospore is a spore contained in an ascus or that was produced inside an ascus. This kind of spore is specific to fungi classified as ascomycetes (Ascomycota). Typically, a single ascus will contain eight ascospores. The eight spores are produced by meiosis followed by a mitotic division. Two meiotic divisions turn the original diploid zygote nucleus into four haploid ones.
- The largest phylum of fungi containing 30,000 different species. They are also called sac fungi. - This refers to the tiny saclike structure, called ascus, in which the sexual spores (called ascospores) of the fungi develop. - During asexual reproduction, ascomycotes produce a different kind of spore.