Question

How does nutrition in a fungi different from that in a tapeworm?

Answer 1

Nutrition in fungus belongs to saprophyte mode.

 In tapeworm it belongs to parasitic mode. Saprophytic relates to being obtained through the decomposition of the dead organic matter whereas parasitic refers to growing inside the host’s body.

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.

Answer 2

The nutrition in fungus(eg. bread mould) is SAPROPHYTIC i.e. it grows on dead and decaying matter. Saprophytes are useful to us as they clean our environment and return the nutrients locked in the wastes to the soil.

On the other hand, nutrition in a tapeworm is PARASITIC i.e. it grows in the body of a ling host and slso harms the host