why are saprophytic nutrition called absorptive nutrition ???
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⚕Why are Saprophytic Nutrition called absorptive nutrition....?
⚪ Saprophytic nutrition is the nutrition in which the organism obtain its food from dead and decaying matter
⚪ When they fund their food, they release their digestive enzymes over them. These enzymes digest the food outside the saprophyte's body.
⚪ After this, the digested food and nutrients are absorbed by the saprophyte and utilized in the body.
Thus Saprophytic Nutrition is a kind of Absorptive process in which without internal digestion, the Saprophyte obtain its food.
✝️This Saprophytic Nutrition is considered extremely important in soil biology. They break down the complex organic matter into simpler substances that are taken up by the plants for various metabolic activities.
✴The fungi grow tubular structures known as hyphae that branch into the dead matter and produce digestive enzymes.
✝️Examples:
- Mucor
- Yeast
- Penicillin