- Spirogyra,
Mougeotia, Zygnema and some other closely related
filaments can reproduce through both scalariform and lateral
conjugation. During conjugation, the filaments change from bright
- green to brownish in color.
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- During scalariform conjugation, a pair of
filaments aligns themselves laterally and connects with branch-like
conjugation tubes. This tube grows from each filament and meets
in the middle to
- form an enclosed space for the gametes to
move, combine, and develop into resistant-walled zygotes that
grow into a single filament.
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