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Feeding on dead and decaying organisms is a nutrition called:

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Saprotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic (using organic chemical substance as a source of energy and organic compound as a source of carbon) extracellular digestion which are involved in the break down of dead or decayed organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs or heterotrophs, and is most often associated with fungi.

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