If you leave a piece of moist bread covered under a small bell jar at a warm place, mould grows on it in a few days. Answer the following with reference to this observation:
(a) How did the mould get inside the bell-jar?
(b) What would happen if the bread was not covered by the bell-jar?
(c) What would happen if moist bread was placed in a refrigerator?
(d) What appears first on the bread – the mycelia or the spores?
(e) How does bread mould obtain nourishment? What type of nourishment is it –
epiphytic, autotrophic, parasitic symbiotic, or saprophytic?