Question

What are saprophytes? How does nutrition occur in them?

Answer 1

1. Saprophytic nutrition is that nutrition in which an organism obtain its food from dead and decaying plant and animal bodies.
2. Organisms having saprophytic mode of nutrition are called saprophytes.
3. Fungi and bacteria are saprophytes.
4. The saprophytes breakdown the complex organic molecules present in dead and decaying matter and convert them into simple substances outside their body.
5. These simple substances are then absorbed by saprophytes as their food.