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In the Fungus Neurospora,a Standard Lab Strain Carrying the Auxotrophic

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In the fungus Neurospora,a standard lab strain carrying the auxotrophic mutation m was crossed to a prototrophic strain isolate from a burned sugar cane field.There were three types of asci as shown below,where the symbol "ab" means an aborted ascospore whose m locus constitution could not be tested.
 Type I  Type 2  Type 3 mabmmabmmababmabab+abab+abab+ab++ab+\begin{array} { l l l } \text { Type I } & \text { Type 2 } & \text { Type 3 } \\m & a b & m \\m & a b & m \\m & a b & a b \\m & a b & a b \\+ & a b & a b \\+ & a b & a b \\+ & a b & + \\+ & a b & +\end{array}
Explain the origin of each ascus type.

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