How does mold grow? 

Everything starts with spores.  Spores are baby mold that are always in the air. This causes some problems because lots of people are allergic to spores. 

Spores come out of lamelles on adult molds.  When a spore falls on something organic (food, animals, cloths, wood, water, earth, humans, etc.)  mold will starts to grow.

Spores like to live in warm, damp, obscure places.

When a spore falls on dead matter [like road kill] the spores decompose it.  After, the spores give the nurturance back to the ecosystem.

Most of the time, mold grows in refrigerators, lunch boxes  or in a place with there are the three conditions of life (warmth, dampness and obscurity).

  

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