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They are both decomposers. This isn't a scienific name however. It is a scientific term.

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How do animals depend on bacteria and fungi?

Animals depend on bacteria and fungi because they decompose dead organisms and fertilize the soil.Some bacteria also are in dairy like yogurt, milk,and etc.Some fungi help break down and absorb all the bad bacteria around us.


What bacteria used dead material as food and energy source?

Decomposer bacteria, such as certain species of fungi and bacteria like Bacillus and Pseudomonas, break down dead organic material into simpler compounds to obtain nutrients and energy. This process helps recycle nutrients back into the environment, playing a crucial role in ecosystem functioning.


What is the cause that remains of animals or plants decay?

Things called decomposers break down the remains of dead plants and animals. They help to recycle the things in the plants and animals that can be useful to other plants and animals. They are the most numerous organisms in an ecosystem. Examples of decomposers include bacteria, fungi, some insects, and snails, which means they are not always microscopic.


How do plants get the nitrogen?

Although nitrogen is abundant in the atmosphere, atmospheric nitrogen features a triple bond that is difficult to break. Bacteria in the soil are mainly responsible for breaking this bond to create organic nitrates that are used by the plants. Such bacteria are called "nitrogen-fixing bacteria" because they take nitrogen from the air (N2) and "fix" it into ammonium (NH4+). Then other bacteria called nitrifying bacteria convert this ammonium to nitrate and nitrite. The nitrates are assimilated by plants through the root systems and incorporate them into nucleic acids and proteins. Animals eat these plants and can use the nitrogen stored within. Then the consumers further up the trophic levels can obtain their nitrogen from the herbivores.


What roll do bacteria play in the carbon cycle?

Bacteria eat dead organic matter and release trapped carbon atoms as CO2.

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What type of organisms breaks down the remains of dead plants and animals?

decomposes break down the remains of dead plants and animals.


Which living thing in the pond system break down dead plants and animals?

The bacteria refers to the living things in the pond system that break down the dead plants and animals. The dead plants and animals are then deposited beneath the river bed.


Plants and animals which break down dead plants and animals?

usually fungi and bacteria.. theyre classified as "decomposers"


When were germs invented?

No person invented germs. Germs, or bacteria, are on earth to break down dead animals and plants.


How do animals depend on bacteria and fungi?

Animals depend on bacteria and fungi because they decompose dead organisms and fertilize the soil.Some bacteria also are in dairy like yogurt, milk,and etc.Some fungi help break down and absorb all the bad bacteria around us.


What animals contain microbes that can break down cellulose?

Cows, horses, sheep, goats, and termites have bacteria living inside their intestinal tract. These bacteria can break down cellulose that is in grass and other plants.


What are animals called if they eat dead plants?

decomposers like bacteria they also break up animal waste and dead remains of animals it makes nutrionts into the soil so that the plants can grow in rich soil


What bacteria used dead material as food and energy source?

Decomposer bacteria, such as certain species of fungi and bacteria like Bacillus and Pseudomonas, break down dead organic material into simpler compounds to obtain nutrients and energy. This process helps recycle nutrients back into the environment, playing a crucial role in ecosystem functioning.


What id biotechnology?

Biotechnology is the practice of using plants, animals and micro-organisms such as bacteria, as well as biological processes - such as the ripening of fruit or the bacteria that break down compost - to some benefit.


What is decomposting?

Carbon is returned to the earth and released into the atmoshpere through the decay of plants and animals. Decomposers, such as fungi and bacteria, break down the carbon compounds in dead animals and plants and convert the carbon into carbon dioxide in the presence of oxygen, or methane if oxygen is not present.


What are ocean bacteria that break down dead fish and plants catergorized as?

Ocean bacteria that break down matter such as dead fish and dead plants are categorized as decomposers.


What is the cause that remains of animals or plants decay?

Things called decomposers break down the remains of dead plants and animals. They help to recycle the things in the plants and animals that can be useful to other plants and animals. They are the most numerous organisms in an ecosystem. Examples of decomposers include bacteria, fungi, some insects, and snails, which means they are not always microscopic.