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minus-square@fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoBotanists call this “cloning”. Like when you cut a bit off one plant and make a new plant you have 2 plants but they’re genetically identical.
minus-squareTlaloc_TemporallinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoThere’s never two fungi here though, the mycelium is always continuous. There’s never another individual structure either, like ribosomal cloning, it’s just more hyphae.
Botanists call this “cloning”.
Like when you cut a bit off one plant and make a new plant you have 2 plants but they’re genetically identical.
There’s never two fungi here though, the mycelium is always continuous. There’s never another individual structure either, like ribosomal cloning, it’s just more hyphae.
Amazing.