spore

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For a mushroom to grow, a fungal spore has to set up shop on a surface and produce mycelia.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024

It produces a type of cell called a spore, which is very resistant to heating.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2023

Imagine the life of a yeast cell, floating around the kitchen in a spore that eventually lands on a bowl of grapes.

From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2023

IRVINE, Calif. — A drone flies over a peaceful Southern California marsh and unleashes a rain of larvae-killing bacterial spore pellets.

From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2023

We are told also that milky spore disease cannot be used on the periphery of the beetle’s range because it can be established only where a large grub population is already present in the soil.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson