why do mushrooms grow their gills and spores on the underside of the fruit body? Isn’t it better to grow it on top so that air and passing animals can carry it?

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Edit: Why do **some** mushrooms…

In: Biology

Answer 1

Mushrooms generally grow them on the bottom because either mutations that caused them to grow on top were not evolutionarily advantageous enough to dominate (‘it’s not better to grow on top’) or such mutations never happened (‘it may be better, but it hasn’t been tested’).