what is difference between decomposer and consumer?

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A consumer is an organism which feeds or derives nutrition from consuming other plants and animals. A decomposer on the other hand feeds on dead and decomposing matter. A decomposer is essentially a consumer only but feeding on a different level , usually the last level in the food chain.

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