Question 2
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

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(b) Yeast, mushroom, bread mould

Saprophytic nutrition is nutrition in which organisms get their food from dead and decaying organisms. They break down the food material outside their body and then absorb it. For example-mushroom, bread mould, yeast, some bacteria etc.

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

Q. Choose the correct statements regarding the statements given below.

Statement 1: Cuscuta derives nutrition from plants without killing them.
Statement 2: Yeasts break down the food material outside their body and then absorb the nutrients.

Q. Which of the following organisms derive their nutrition from living plants or animals?

निम्नलिखित में से कौनसा जीव जीवित पादप या जंतुओं से अपना पोषण प्राप्त करता है?

(i) Bread mould (फफूँदी)

(ii) Cuscuta (कस्कुटा)

(iii) Leech (लीच)

(iv) Mushroom (मशरूम)

(v) Yeast (यीस्ट)

(vi) Tape-worm (फीताकृमि)

Q. Match the pairs.

Group 'A'		Group 'B'
(1)	Parasitic plant	(a)	Mushroom
(2)	Insectivorous plant	(b)	Lichen
(3)	Saprophytic plant	(c)	Drosera
(4)	Symbiotic plant	(d)	Cuscuta

Question 5
The term that is used for the mode of nutrition in yeast, mushroom and bread-mould is

(a) autotrophic
(b) insectivorous
(c) saprophytic
(d) parasitic

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Question 2 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

(b) Yeast, mushroom, bread mould Saprophytic nutrition is nutrition in which organisms get their food from dead and decaying organisms. They break down the food material outside their body and then absorb it. For example-mushroom, bread mould, yeast, some bacteria etc.

Question 2
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

(b) Yeast, mushroom, bread mould

Saprophytic nutrition is nutrition in which organisms get their food from dead and decaying organisms. They break down the food material outside their body and then absorb it. For example-mushroom, bread mould, yeast, some bacteria etc.