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

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Cuscuta, lice, tapeworm
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Mushroom, green plants, amoeba
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Paramecium, amoeba, cuscuta
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Yeast, mushroom, bread mould
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Solution

The correct option is D 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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