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