Question

What is the difference between parasitic and saprophytic nutrition?

Answer 1

Parasitic and saprophytic nutrition:

1. Parasite feeding heterotrophic nutrition is what it is. It is a form of feeding in which organisms consume their hosts' bodies while living on or inside of them.
2. The host is the organism from which the food is taken, whereas the parasite is the creature that acquires the food.
   
3. A chemoheterotrophic extracellular digesting method used to process decomposed organic matter is known as saprotrophic nutrition or lyotropic nutrition.
   

Difference between parasitic and saprophytic nutrition is as follows:

Parasitic nutrition	Saprophytic nutrition
1. The digestion in parasites is intracellular.	1. The digestion in saprophytes is extracellular.
2. It lives on the body surface or inside the body of another type of organism.	2. It lives independent of the source of nutrition.
3.They are heterotrophs.	3. They are detritivores.
Eg. Plasmodium vivax	Eg. Fungi