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Q: What is responsible for the decay of organisms?
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What is responsible the decay of dead organisms?

Bacteria and other small organisms, such as insects are responsible for the decay of dead organisms.


What is responsible for decay of dead organisms?

Bacteria and other small organisms, such as insects are responsible for the decay of dead organisms.


What are the organisms which can cause decay?

Most of the times, it is the organism itself that decay... But think of the issue over in the Rockies right now... The beetles are decaying the trees... I don't remember the name, but that is one of them.


What is most responsible for the decay of organisms?

Decomposers eat the dead organisms. For example, worms and weeds, and sometimes scavengers like crows, vultures and ravens, eat dead organisms. EDIT: Bacteria


What is most responsible for the decay of dead organisms?

Decomposers eat the dead organisms. For example, worms and weeds, and sometimes scavengers like crows, vultures and ravens, eat dead organisms. EDIT: Bacteria


What is the organism that causes the decay of dead plant and animal matter?

The term for an organism that causes decay is decomposers, such as bacteria and fungi. they chemically break down organic matter for food. the decay caused by the decomposers is part of a process that produces detritus, small pieces of dead and decaying plant/animal remains.


What is important in decay?

microscopic organisms are the major causes of decay.


Do organisms decay quickly in a desert?

Most organisms that die are quickly devoured by scavengers in the desert and do not have the opportunity to decay.


What Plant like organisms that decay to make acids?

Lichens are plantlike organisms that decay to make acids:)


Is decay a micro-organism?

Decay, in itself, is a process.However, decay is caused by decomposing bacteria, which are micro-organisms.


Does oxygen affect decay why or why not?

Yes, decay is the process releasing energy by "burining" by living organisms.


What microorganism are responsible for food decay?

bacteria