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What is the source of mold on bread

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Well, mold develops and grows eventually forming a colony due to spores landing on the bread and multiplying, hence growing the mold.

Where does mold on bread come from?

On bread, molds (many colonies of various sorts) develop from microscopic fungi that float in the atmosphere.

The fungus that causes mold develops as extremely little filaments called hyphae, which enable the fungus to float and be transported by the air. The hyphae spread by forming an apparent, hairy network when they land on bread or other organic materials. The color of the spores that develop on the end of the hyphae determines the color of the mold network .There are molds that grow as single-cell spores as opposed to mold that grows as multicellular hyphae with a spore at the end. They are known as yeast.

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