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Decomposers
This category covers questions about decomposers, organisms that break down other dead or decaying organisms to obtain energy for growth and development. Decomposers are formally known as saprotrophs.
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Most decomposers are insects. Flies, maggots, beetles, ants and roaches are forms of insect decomposers. Other decomposers known as scavengers are vultures, hyenas, and possums.
Fungi is a decomposer. They make enzymes that decompose the decaying matter while feasting on the nutrients of that substance. This is why that most fungi are useful because without them, the biomass would be crowded with dead matter. Other decomposers include bacteria and actinomycetes.
What does a decomposer look like?
Decomposer bacteria are invisible to naked eye ,while decomposers fungi are of different shapes as bread mold .
How do dung beetles decompose?
They break down the manure and fertilizes the tree/grass. So in a way it's decomposing the tree/grass.
Do decomposers return raw materials to the environment?
Decomposers decompose garbage or more likely an abiot substance that was left alon in an area with soil in it. to answer your question if they return raw materials,they do not. it just takes tham longer to decompose them. if you put a raw carrot in a field it would probably turn into siol but it would take longer them a boiled carrot that is already softer.
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It's the bacteria that is in the feces that makes it decay. Anaerobic ferments the feces which breaks it down and turns it into soil. Fly larvae also help speed the decay process, as well as the plants that the pile was dropped on and around.
How is mold important to agriculture?
Because in the olden days mold was sometimes used to cure sicknesess.
a slug is a decomposer because it is small and it is a insect so it is able to break down big things
Are Eisenia fetida the best decomposers?
yes the Eisenia Fetida (red worm) or the Lumbricus rubellus (red earthworm)
Explain the importance of detritivores and decomposers and give 2 examples?
They help by consuming old matter and adding to decomposition in general, this allows new plants to flourish.
What substances can be broken down by decomposers?
Rotting wood (logs), fecal matter, dead plants, dead animals, etc.
If an organism eats decomposers is it a decomposer?
An organism that eats live or freshly killed decomposers is a consumer. That could be a rodent eating a mushroom or a bird eating an earthworm.
If the decomposers that are being consumed are already dead and decaying, and if they are being reduced to basic nutrients, then the eating organism is a decomposer. It will probably be a bacteria or fungus or earthworm or fly maggot.
What fungi feeds on dead animals?
lots of different animals feed on dead animals. this could be the cause of lack of food but it is usually just easier for wild animals to eat a animal that they found dead as they do not have to hunt. most animals (including humans) eat animals that are dead as it would be hard to eat them if they were still living and moving.
animals that find other animals dead and eat them are call scavengers. an example of this type of animals is the hyena.
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