Mar 06, 2013 - 4:55 pm. I finished chemotherapy therapy in September for stage !V colon cancer. I had my second CT scan last Monday and the Onc called today and left a message that I still have a tiny spot on my lung and two very small cysts on my liver. What alarmed me was the word still. I had never heard before today that I had ANY spots or cysts found on my previous scan. Needless to say...I was a little freaked out.
Spores are usually haploid and unicellular and are produced by meiosis in the sporangium of a diploid sporophyte. Under favourable conditions the spore can develop into a new organism using mitotic division, producing a multicellular gametophyte, which eventually goes on to produce gametes. Two gametes fuse to form a zygote which develops into a new sporophyte.
Spores are specialised cells of the fungus that can function as resting or dispersal propagules. Each spore has the potential to generate another individual of the species. In contrast to seeds, spores have no specialised components that differentiate them from other cells of the thallus. Thus any viable cell may be called a spore, when upon separation from the thallus it can form a new individual.