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Zygomycota A phylum of saprotrophic or parasitic fungi that includes the bread mould (Mucor). Their hyphae lack cross walls and they can reproduce asexually by sporangiospores formed within a sporangium or sexually by means of zygospores.

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Zygomycota , a phylum of the kingdom Fungi .

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