To make cells and build body parts
to help an organism live you need nutrients, like any types of food, depending on the organism.
to help an organism live you need nutrients, like any types of food, depending on the organism.
A decomposer is an organism that breaks down the nutrients of dead organisms or wastes for food. Fungi and bacteria are the most common decomposers.
Energy and nutrients are passed from organism to organism, through the food chain as one organism, eats another.
All living organism requires nutrients of some sort. Animals require food, plants require water and sunlight, etc.
The organism that produces food in the food chain for other organisms is the producer. The producer is usually a green plant that is eaten by an omnivore or a herbivore. And the food chain continues
External digestion is when enzymes are secreted to digest food outside of the organism. Then the soluble nutrients are absorbed by the organism.
What are the two ways organisms use nutrients from food?
Food provides nutrients and energy we need.
decomposers
Fungi are decomposers. They absorb food by breaking down another organism and using its nutrients. Fungi are heterotrophs.
Animals must digest food to receive the essential nutrients that the particular organism needs to survive.