The fruiting body of a mushroom <u>protects the spores</u>
Explanation:
Fruiting bodies of fungi are responsible for producing and protecting spores, whose main function is sexual reproduction. These structures that produce the spores are not distributed by the fruiting body, but are organized in a hymenium this area along with other elements is called hymenophore. The differences that occur in the hymenophore is one of the characteristics to take into account the type of fungus.
