sporo, spor

A diagnostic method in relation to the mycoses, based upon the fact that the blood of patients with diseases caused by fungi contains specific agglutinins that cause clumping of the spores of these organisms.

The distribution of minute (tiny) seeds, fruit, or spores by wind.

A minute tubular structure in the walls of certain gregarine sporocysts, through which spores are passed.

Gregarines are protozoans that live as a parasite in the digestive tracts of some insects, arthropods, annelids, and other invertebrates and sporocysts are protective cases or cysts in which sporozoites develop and from which they are transferred to different hosts.

Protozoa that are nearly all parasitic and have no obvious means of locomotion.

Most of them pass through a complicated life-cycle involving alternation of sexual and asexual reproduction and the formation of spores.

Some, such as the malaria parasite, live in the blood of the host; others may infest the gut or the muscles. They are often transmitted by blood-sucking insects.

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A reference to a plant that disperses its seeds quickly.

Having the spores in thecae, or cases.