Mushrooms with gills, typically available in supermarkets, have meiotically produced spores located in or on BASIDIA and belong to the phylum BASIDIOMYCOTA.
Explanation:
Mushrooms are fruiting bodies of certain fungi that belongs yo the phylum BASIDIOMYCOTA. They are incapable of producing their own foods( because of lack of chlorophyl) therefore are saprophytic in nature. It derives its nutrients for growth from metabolizing non living organic matter.The structure that you normally see above the ground is the part of the mushroom that is producing and dispersing spores which is located at the BASIDIA.
Mushroom are used for different purposes:
- the edible species are useful in cooking since it provides vitamin D to the diet.
