The mushroom in a basidiomycete life cycle serves the same function as the _____ in the ascomycete life cycle, which is to _____.

• A. plasmodium; form gametes
• B. dikaryon; store a food reserve
• C. conidium; supply the rest of the fungus with chitin monomers
• D. zygosporangium; produce sexual spores
• E. ascocarp; scatter sexually produced spores