Question

Difference between saprophyte and heterotrophic

Answer 1

Heterotrophic nutrition is the mode of nutrition exhibited by heterotrophs. Heterotrophs are the organisms that depend on plants or other organisms for their food. Heterotrophic type of nutrition can be categorized into parasitic mode, saprophytic mode and symbiotic mode of nutrition.

The organisms which exhibit saprotrophic mode of nutrition are called as saprotrophs. Saprotrophs are the organisms that obtain their nutrition from dead and decaying organic matter. Saprotrophs secrete digestive juices onto dead and decaying matter to dissolve it and then absorb nutrients from it