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A parasite feeds off living hosts, while scavengers and detritivores feed off dead organisms.
Some organisms commit necromeny: they stay in a latency stadium inside a host waiting until it dies naturally, and then, they feeds off its dead body, being saprophytes.
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∙ 15y ago
Seevagan .V
Saprophytes are mainly microorganisms like fungi and bacteria. They decompose externally. Scavengers are mainly animals like Hyenas and Vultures which eat the flesh directly.
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∙ 14y agoscavengers can highly concave animals or plants but saprophytes are microorganisms
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∙ 11y agofungi derive nutrition from dead decaying mater they are saprothrophs plant like cuscuta they take food from the host plant they are parasite..
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What is an organism that feeds off once living organisms?
scavengers or parasites they can also be called decomposers or the more biological term would be saprophytes
Is there term like obligate saprophyte and facultative saprophyte?
surely.Obligate saprophytes are ordinary saprophytes .while facultative saprophytes are parasites cultured in peculiar conditions as saprophytes, for half of their life cycle
Why are saprophytes called saprophytes?
They Live of live or Dead Organic matter
What would happen if the world had no saprophytes?
If no saprophytes would be there the world would be stinking.The saprophytes eat us or consume the dead and decaying.They work are the cleaners you can say.
Saprophytes are also called?
Detritivores or Saprophages.
What is different between scavenger and saprophytes?
scavengers can highly concave animals or plants but saprophytes are microorganisms
What is an organism that feeds off once living organisms?
scavengers or parasites they can also be called decomposers or the more biological term would be saprophytes
What is the name of one decomposer?
One decomposer of the grasslands would be a mushroom. It can be found in moist areas near dead organisms such as leaves.
Is there term like obligate saprophyte and facultative saprophyte?
surely.Obligate saprophytes are ordinary saprophytes .while facultative saprophytes are parasites cultured in peculiar conditions as saprophytes, for half of their life cycle
Why are saprophytes called saprophytes?
They Live of live or Dead Organic matter
What would happen if the world had no saprophytes?
If no saprophytes would be there the world would be stinking.The saprophytes eat us or consume the dead and decaying.They work are the cleaners you can say.
Do saprophytes have thick walls called endospores?
Saprophytes have thick walls called endspores?
Are mushroom parasites or saprophytes?
They are saprophytes because they live on other decaying matter for their food
What do you understand by saprophytes?
Saprophytes are the plants which derive their food from the dead and decaying organic matter
What is the difference between scavengers and decomposers?
Decomposers break down organic matter while scavengers go around eating dead animals for food. An example of a decomposer is a fungus, and an example off a scaveenger is a vulture.
What are the plants that are not green?
Saprophytes
Do saprophytes live on by eating plants?
Saprophytes are fungi and live of dead and decaying matter, not live plant material
