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Explain what a decomposer is?

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A decomposer an organsim that eats dead organsims and animal waste. ( animal poop )

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A decomposer is an organism that breaks down other dead or decaying organisms. The fungi found on trees is a decomposer.

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Decomposers are also known as saprotrophs. They break down decaying or dead organisms an in the process the carry out decomposition. They are heterotrophic.

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it comsumes anything thats dead, like a crab will eat a shark once it's dead whitch is decomposing

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