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What is Mold?

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The term “mold” is a defined as “a simple microscopic organism that is found everywhere, indoors and outdoors. Mold belongs to the Fungi Kingdom. (All molds are fungi, but not all fungi are molds).” [Managing Microbial Problems in Buildings, A Teaching Glossary by Patrick J. Moffett & Environmental Management & Engineering, Inc., 2003.] Mold is a microscopic version of a mushroom. Like mushrooms, most molds consist of a fruiting body, a root system, and very small seeds known as spores. The filaments are the root system that micro-fungi send into whatever material they are growing on, so that they can soften and digest the material.

Mold is everywhere. It is a living thing that is neither animal nor what is usually considered a plant. It grows naturally outdoors. The spores, which mold create in order to reproduce, are present in the air. When mold moves indoors it grows rapidly in environments that contain an excessive amount of moisture.

Mold spores are hardened containers, which possess all the DNA instructions needed to create new mold creatures. If they bump into dry walls they simply rebound and continue floating. When they bump into wet walls, however, they stick. When the shell of a mold spore is broken, mold is created by the emergence of several groping, arm-like structures called hyphae. These hyphae are used by molds to obtain nourishment from sulfur grains in concrete, metals in paint, or, for one especially abundant species found at some time in almost every house in northern temperate climates, the antibiotic produced when they land on wood. The hyphae excrete enzymes that break down complex organic materials.

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