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What is a organism that breaks down the nutrients of dead organisms or wastes for food?
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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.
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How do single celled organisms exchange nutrients and wastes with their environment?
by allowing them to diffuse through the cell membrane
What breaks down food wastes and worn out cell parts?
A decomposer breaks down dead organisms for nutrients.
Why isn't a feather an organism?
An organism is a living thing. It takes nutrients from its surrounding and produces wastes (metabolism). A feather cannot do this. It also can not reproduce itself. These are two main characteristics of an organism.
What is an organism that feeds on the wastes or remains of living things?
Organisms that live off the wastes and remains of other organisms are called scavengers. These scavengers include crows, and turkey vultures.
What is a producer consumer and decomposer?
Some example of producers are plants and lichen (organisms that do not need to get their food, they make their own food) one example of consumers are bears (organisms that eat other organisms to get food) one example of decomposer are mushrooms (organisms that get their food by breaking down the nutrients in dead organisms or animal wastes
What is a organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw material to the environment called?
fungus
How do single celled organisms exchange nutrients and wastes with their environment?
by allowing them to diffuse through the cell membrane
Organism that breaks down the nutrients of dead organisms or wastes of food?
A decomposer
Why waste should be eliminated from the organisms body?
The body would be too full of wastes that may be harmful to the organism. Essential nutrients and beneficial compounds won't be absorbed. The organism would be too cluttered to survive.
What are organisms that consume wastes to obtain the nutrients they need to survive?
decomposers
What is the role of the carbon cycle?
recycle nutrients from dead organisms or their wastes
Organism remove metabolic cellular wastes by the process of?
Organisms remove metabolic cellular wastes by the process of excretion.
What does descomposer mean?
They are the bacteria involved in making something rot.
What breaks down food wastes and worn out cell parts?
A decomposer breaks down dead organisms for nutrients.
What is the role of decomposers in the carbon cycle?
recycle nutrients from dead organisms or their wastes
What Organism that break down wastes and dead organisms and returns the raw materials to the environment?
Decomposers
Which number represents a group of organism that break down the wastes and remains of other organisms?
producer
