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Because if decomposers, also known technically as detritavores, did not consume and chemically break down the litter of life, plant and animal material, we would be buried in all this detritus.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoI'll give you two ways. Bacteria and fungi are important for the environment because they help break down minerals from dead matter. Otherwise there would be dead logs, plants, even people everywhere and nothing would turn them into healthy loamy soil. Then, when all the soil has been used up, what would be there to make more? Nothing. The plants would die. The animals would die. We would die.
The second reason is that many types of fungi go into relationships with higher trees and connect their roots (Fungus' roots are called mycelium, plural mycelia) with the roots of the tree. This way they exchange nutrients with each other. Alot of times the fungus can connect with many trees, making a sort of network. Many trees cannot survive with these important fungi.
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∙ 12y agobreak down dead organisms.
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∙ 11y agoBreak down dead organisms.
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∙ 10y agoto break down dead things
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∙ 12y agobacteria decompose dead organisms
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Why are decomposers important to the environment?
it is important to like food webs to and the environment. one of the decomposers is the fungi. the fungi is important because, if we didnt have fungi then the dead animals that died and the flowers that died, we would all be covered in them and they would be in places where they had died. not a good thing. so that's why fungi is important.
What type of organisms are the major groups of decomposers?
Decomposers (fungi, bacteria, insect larva) are organisms that live off dead material left behind by ealier organisms. They are important because they reduce organic material to a simpler form usable by other life.
What two kingdoms include bacteria?
The plant and protist kingdoms contain organisms that can use energy from the sun to make food. The plant kingdom has over 260,000 species.
Why does fungi inhibit the growth of bacteria?
Antibiotics, specifically, antibacterial compounds.
Both bacteria and fungi can be?
prokaryotes
Organisms such as bacteria and fungi digest macromolecules in the environment this best describes the important roll these organisms play in what?
Fungi digest macromolecules by extracellular enzyme activity.
What might change in an environment were there is no fungi?
Bacteria and environmental factors .
How do fungi and bacteria contribute towards an ecosystem?
They are a very important part of any ecosystem. Fungi and bacteria are decomposes.
What is the most important of decomposers?
The biggest species of decomposers are fungi.
What characteristics of bacteria protozoa and fungi suggest that they are living cells?
They respond to changes in the environment.
Why are antibiotics made by fungi and bacteria?
Bacteria is represented as both fungi and antibiotics. Fungi produce antibiotics to compete and overpower the bacteria present in the dead matter that encloses them.
What 2 organisms play an important role as decomposers?
bacteria and fungi
How do bacteria fungi impact our daily lives as well as the environment?
they impact our daily lives as the particles released through fungi are taken in by breathing by us
What is the advantage of fungi secreting antibiotics?
fungi produce antibiotics to hinder the growth of certain bacteria or a number of bacteria (broad spectrum). they were once our only source of antibiotics, but now we can synthesize them in a laboratory.
What is the most important fungi or bacteria for nitrogen fixation?
Azobacter, Rhizobium,etc
Why are decomposers important to the environment?
it is important to like food webs to and the environment. one of the decomposers is the fungi. the fungi is important because, if we didnt have fungi then the dead animals that died and the flowers that died, we would all be covered in them and they would be in places where they had died. not a good thing. so that's why fungi is important.
What do fungi and bacteria grow from?
fungi and bacteria grow from spores.
