When you eat mushrooms on your pizza, you are technically eating the
A) roots.
B) mycelium.
C) fungal leaves.
D) seeds.
E) chloroplasts.

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Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of fungi, and the mycelium is the main vegetative part of a fungus. The mycelium consists of a network of fine white filaments (hyphae) that absorb nutrients. The parts of mushrooms we eat are not roots, leaves, seeds, or chloroplasts, as fungi do not have these structures in the same way plants do.

When You Eat Mushrooms on Your Pizza, You Are Technically