Question

Name an organism which is called saprotrophs .Why that is called so?

Answer 1

The organisms which exhibit saprotrophic mode of nutrition are called as saprotrophs. Saprotrophs obtain their nutrition from dead and decaying organic matter. Saprotrophs secrete digestive juices onto dead and decaying matter to dissolve it and then absorb nutrients from it. Fungi are saprotrophs. Rhizopus, asperigillus, mushrooms are some of the examples of saprotrophs. These are organisms grow and depend on dead and decaying matter.

Answer 2

Organism which take in food by sucking nutrients from dead N decaying matter r called saprotrophs. This type of nutrition is called saprotrophic. Many fungi like aspergillus have dis nutrition