Question

---------are living things that depend on other living or decaying matter for food.

Answer 1

Answer:

The organisms which depend on other organisms for food are called heterotrophs. For example, man, dog, cat, deer, tiger, cow, non-green plants like yeast are all heterotrophs.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Heterotrophs

Explanation:

• Heterotrophs are animals that cannot make their own food but depend on other organisms either living or dead for food .
• Some examples of heterotrophs include human beings, cows , snakes, ants , mosquitoes , plasmodium etc.
• While saprophytes are organisms  that obtain nutrition from dead and decaying matter  ( dead and decaying animals, plants etc).
• Examples of saprophytes include yeast, fungi and other saprophytic bacteria etc.