Question

This group of mushrooms, fungi, are growing up through the leaf litter on the forest floor. In any food chain, these fungi would be classified as ____________ and they get their nutrients by
A) consumers; absorbing the nutrients from the soil.
B) producers; using the pigment in the caps to make food.
C) decomposers; breakdown the leaf litter and use the products as food.
D) parasites; living off of the dead lead litter and using the organic matter as a food source.

Answer 1

C) decomposers; breakdown the leaf litter and use the products as food

Answer 2

Parasites as they do infact live off organic matter