Question

5. Mushroom and Dodder both are heterotrophs. How are they different from each
other?

Answer 1

Mushrooms are saprophytes, i.e. they depend on dead and decaying matter for their own nutrition.

Dodder plant, however, is a parasite. It depends on the host for both food and water.

So, even though both of them are heterotrophs, one of them is a saprophyte and the other is a parasite.

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