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Content of organic material?
Organic material contains organic compounds from the remains of dead organisms and their waste products.
Is natural gas inorganic?
No, it originally comes form long dead organisms.
Does all micro-organisms feed on dead organisms only?
no not all micro organisms feed on dead organisms only
Organisms that obtain nutrients by breaking down dead and decaying plants and animals are called?
Organisms that break down wastes an dead organisms and return the raw material to the environment are called decomposers.
How would a forest fire most likely help some organisms?
Fire burns away dead material and that allows more room for healthier regrowth
Name the organisms that eat plant material?
Organisms that feed on dead material in this way are called saprophytes.
What organisms eat dead organisms and waste material from other organisms called?
Decomposers.
What is the name of the group of organisms that cause dead organic material to decay?
decomposition
Content of organic material?
Organic material contains organic compounds from the remains of dead organisms and their waste products.
Organisms that break down dead and decaying material are called composers?
They are called parasites
Organisms that break down complex compounds and dead tissue?
Decomposers
Is mosquito larva a decompose?
Decomposers eat dead material. Most decomposers are fungus and bacteria. However, mosquito larvae does not eat dead organic material, and therefore is not a decomposer.
Is natural gas inorganic?
No, it originally comes form long dead organisms.
What organisms get their food by breaking down dead organisms?
Decomposers (or saprotrophs) are organisms that consume dead or decaying organisms, and, in doing so, carry out the natural process of decompositionSapotrophs or (if a plant) saprophytes.
Does fecal mater produce maggots?
No. Maggots are living organisms. Fecal mater is dead cells and other waste material. Nothing living comes from something dead. But eggs (living) that hatch when flies (living) lay them on fecal mater can be produced.
What happens to dead plant material that is plowed into the soil following a crop harvest?
The dead plant material gets broke down by organisms in the soil. The nutrients can then be used by the next year's crop.
What is a organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw material to the environment called?
fungus
