Differentiate between saprophytic and parasitic nutrition
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Saprophytic nutrition :- When the organism obtain its food from decaying organic matter of plants, dead animals, etc.
Example :- fungi, etc.
Parasitic nutrition :- When the organism derives its food from another living organism (host) without killing it.
Example :- bacteria, cuscuta, plasmodium, et
Answer:
The organism that grows on the body of another organism and derives nutrients from it is known as a parasite. The organism that obtains nutrients from the dead or decaying organic matter is called saprotroph.
They take the readymade food from the host. || They take the digested and decayed food.
-They directly feed on living organisms for their nutrition. || They feed on dead and decaying organism.
-Examples- Cuscuta and orchids. || Examples- Fungi and some bacteria.