Question

What are the differences and similarities between saprotrophs and parasites ?

Answer 1

Parasite

1. A parasite takes readymade food from the organism on which it feeds.
2. They feed on a living organism.
3. The organism on which it feeds is called host.
4. It deprives the host of valuable nutrients.

Saprotroph

1. They secrete the digestive juices on the matter they live and convert it into a solution and then absorb it.
2. They feed on dead and decaying organism.
3. They do not feed on a living organism.
4. There is no host at all.

Answer 2

1.both are hetero tropic nutrition.2.Both lack digestive system and take already digested food only