Explanation:
These spores can be produced quickly and in large numbers to enable many individual fungi to develop. A disadvantage of these spores is that they generate offspring that are unlikely to be resistant to unfavourable conditions because they are all genetically identical.
Advantages
- The organism does not need male and female reproductive organs.
- Organisms do not waste their energy unnecessarily in producing male and female gametes.
- Large numbers of spores are produced in one sporangium.
- Spores do not require any medium for dispersal. They are rounded and very light in weight and hence can be easily transferred for germination.
- Spores are distributed easily by air to far-off places to avoid competition at one place.
- Spores are covered with thick walls to prevent dehydration under unfavourable conditions.
Disadvantages :
- A disadvantage is that the spores will be clones of the original organism, leaving them vulnerable.
- Spore reproduction is quick and multiplies many at once, hence the population will increase and survival chances are high.
- They remain dormant till favourable conditions are available
- . As they are light, they can be carried by wind and hence can start growing in different regions
