10 difference between parasitic and saprophytic nutrition
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Parasitic nutrition
- A parasite is an organism that derives its nutrition from another living organism.
- It has intracellular digestion.
- A parasite gives harmful effects to host but do not kill him.
- examples- lice, fleas, ticks and mites
Saprophytic nutrition
- A saprophyte is an organism that obtains its nutrition from dead and decaying organic matter.
- it has extracellular digestion.
- It releases certain secretions which convert rotten and decaying matter into soluble forms which are then absorbed by saprophyte's body.
- examples- fungi and mushroom.
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