Saprophytes and parasites both extract their nutrients from other sources. Rita has a confusion. She asks, ‘then why are they categorized into two different groups?’
Answer Jenny’s question by giving one basic difference between these heterotrophic groups.
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Saprophytes extract their nutrients from dead or decaying organic matter.
Parasites obtain their nutrients by absorbing them from another organism (called host) that they are living inside of.
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Answer: Saprophytes also known as saprotrophs are organisms which derive/absorb nourishment/energy from dead and decaying matter. Although Parasites (Latin word “Parasitus”) means feeding on other living organism these parasites derive/absorb their nourishment/energy from the living organisms through roots called haustoria, the plant or living organism from where these parasites get their nutrition from are called the HOST.
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