Question

Difference between the nutrition that of a tapeworm and the nutrition of a saprotrophic fungus.

Answer 1

Saprotrophs are heterotrophic organisms that feed on decaying or dead plant matter in the presence of adequate levels of water, oxygen, pH, and temperature. Fungi species predominate among saprotrophs due to their ability to digest lignin in the xylem tissues of plants. There is an interesting instance where most of the dead plants during the carboniferous period did not undergo decomposition because the saprotrophs had not developed the lignin digesting enzymes by then; hence, those large plant deposits became available for the present day consumption as fossil fuels.

Saprotrophic organisms secrete digesting enzymes such as proteases, lipases, or amylases onto the substrate
Tapeworms are flat worms that live in a person's digestive tract. They can grow to more than 82 feet (30 meters) and live as long as 30 years.

Tapeworms are parasites. As you probably know from biology class, parasites are organisms that live in, or on, other organisms (called "hosts"). Parasites take their nutrients from the host, sometimes depriving the host of nutrition.

Tapeworms get into the body when a person eats or drinks something that's infected with a worm or its eggs. Once inside the body, the tapeworm head attaches to the inner wall of the intestines. The tapeworm feeds off the food that the host is digesting. It uses this nutrition to grow.

Tapeworms are made up of segments, and they get longer by growing new segments. Each segment can reproduce by making thousands of eggs. Since tapeworms can have more than 3,000 segments, that's a lot of opportunity to spread.

Answer 2

Answer:

Nutrition in fungus belongs to saprophyte mode. In tapeworm it belongs to parasitic mode. ... Saprophytic mode in fungi helps to clean the environment whereas parasitic nutrition involves living inside the body of another organism and gets nutrition directly from the host.