The stinky, ugly organism seen growing on decaying bread have some common feature with plants such as Coral Roots and Indian pipe. What is the common trait they share? Investigate to find out why the two cannot be grouped together under one category.
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Answer:
The common trait which is shared by all of these is that the original product or element of discussion over here gets damaged and decayed when they get spoiled and become rotten. The common trait is that over a span of time they get damaged, in all of these, all elements take some time to decay.
Explanation:
However, they may not all be categorized into one category because, one item gets decayed, other gets fungus on it, it gets moldy, the coral reefs get attacked by algal growth on them, they are bacteria's but different in nature.
The common feature that they share is the 'mode of nutrition'. They take their 'nutrition' from other organisms. They cannot be grouped together because fungus obtain its nutrition from 'dead and decaying organic matter' while Indian pipe obtain its nutrition by spreading its roots and attaching itself to the fungus.
Explanation:
The mode of nutrition of fungus is saprophytic while that of Indian pipe is parasitic. Saprophytic means obtaining nutrition from dead and decaying organic matter and parasitic means obtaining nutrition by attaching itself to a living organism.