Question

Bacteria and fungi are

• A. Primary consumers
  
• B. Decomposers
  
• C. Secondary consumers
• D. Scavengers

Answer 1

The correct option is B Decomposers


Scavengers :
Scavengers are those organisms that feed on dead and decaying plants or animals and absorb nutrition. They do not kill the plant or animal for food, they feed on dead matter which has died from predation.
For example, earthworms, insects, etc. are scavengers.

Primary consumers :
Primary consumers are organisms that depend upon the producers for their food and they constitute the second trophic level. For example, herbivores.

Secondary consumers :
Secondary consumers feed on primary consumers for food. They are carnivores.

Decomposers :
Decomposers are heterotrophic microbes like bacteria and fungi that derive their nutrition by decomposing dead and decaying organisms.