classify the following as holozoic, saptrotrophic, parasitic:- yeast mushroom tapeworm amoeba parameccium fungi leech cuscuta

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Holozoic mode of nutrition: Holozoic nutrition is a type of heterotrophic nutrition in which food is taken in solid/liquid form from outside and is digested inside their body,
Amoeba, Paramecium

Saprotrophic mode of nutrition: Saprophytic nutrition is a type of heterotrophic nutrition in which organism feed on dead and decaying plant or animal matter.
Yeast, mushroom, fungi

Parasitic mode of nutrition: The mode of nutrition in which organisms derive nutrients by living in or on their host is known as parasitic nutrition.
Tapeworm. leech, Cuscuta

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In which of the following groups of organisms, food material is broken down outside the body and absorbed?

(a) Mushroom, green plants, Amoeba
(b) Yeast, mushroom, bread mould
(c) Paramecium, Amoeba, Cuscuta
(d) Cuscuta, lice, tapeworm

Q. Match the organisms given in column I with the processes given in column II:

	Column I		Column II
(i)	Leech	(a)	Holozoic nutrition
(ii)	Amoeba	(b)	Autotrophic nutrition
(iii)	Mushroom	(c)	Parasitic nutrition
(iv)	Green plant	(d)	Saprophytic nutrition

Q. Two of the following organisms have a holozoic mode of nutrition. These organisms are:
(a) Paramecium and Plasmodium
(b) Plasmodium and Parakeet
(c) Parakeet and Paramecium
(d) Paramecium and Parasite

Q. How many of these are modes of nutrition of fungi?
(i) Chemosynthetic
(ii) Holozoic
(iii) Parasitic
(iv) Saprophytic
(v) Symbiotic

In the following series how many fungi are saprophytes?

Series- Mushroom, Yeast, Mould, Rust, Smut.

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