Question

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Answer 1

Passage understanding :-

Here, Organism A is fungai which provide shelter, water and nutritients to the algae and algae provides food to the fungai because algae performs photosynthesis.

Organism C is a parasitic plant as it produces sucking roots which penetrate into the host plant and absorbs it essential nutrients.

Answers :-

1) Organism A performs saprophytic heterotrophic nutrition.

Saprophytic nutrition is the process of obtaining nutrients from the decaying organic matter.

2) Organism C performance parasitic heterotrophic nutrition.

Parasitic heterotrophic nutrition is the process of obtaining nutrients from the body surface of host organisms.

3) Examples of Saprophytes :-

• Mushrooms and Moulds

• Mycorrhizal fungi

- Examples of parasities :-

• Gut worms

• Protozoa $.$