Detritus feeders or detritivores eat dead and decaying parts of plants and animals and also their excreta. They are heterotrophs and obtain their... View Article
Plants are autotrophs, they capture energy from the sun and convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates. The energy fixed in the photosynthesis... View Article
Algae are primary producers, they trap the energy from the sun and convert it to chemical energy, which flows in the ecosystem. All the... View Article
Yes, earthworms are decomposers. They feed on dead and decaying organic matter and faeces. They break down detritus inside their body and get the... View Article
Detritus feeders feed on dead and decaying producers (plants) and consumers (animals) and return carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. They also... View Article
No, Algae are producers and are autotrophs. They derive energy from photosynthesis like plants. Fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms are... View Article
Detritivores are organisms that feed on detritus and get nutrients by internal digestion, whereas saprotrophs decompose dead organic matter... View Article
Yes, millipedes are detritivores. They feed on dead organisms and their waste products. Further reading: Plankton Nutrient Cycle Genetic... View Article
Food chain predicts the trophic level of an organism and how they are interacting with each other. It shows how the presence of one species... View Article
Plankton are the diverse organisms present in the ocean as well as freshwater and are too weak to swim against the water current. Phytoplankton... View Article
Detritus in aquariums is the excreta of fish and dead remains of organisms. It settles at the bottom and needs to be removed. If left unattended,... View Article
Detritus is the dead and decaying remains of plants and animals and the faecal material. It is decomposed by decomposers to release nutrients.... View Article
Detritus refers to the dead remains of plants and animals. Dead organisms and their parts such as hair and bones are considered as biotic because... View Article
No, it is not possible to be a carrier of a dominant gene. A dominant gene is expressed even when only one copy of it is present, i.e. in... View Article
Blood type is an example of multiple alleles and codominance. Multiple allelism is a condition when more than two alleles govern a character.... View Article
Transitional fossils are the remnants of life, which are the missing links between the known version of a species and the current version of the... View Article
Mutation refers to the change in the sequence of base pairs of DNA, whereas DNA damage causes a change in the chemical structure of DNA and halts... View Article
