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  2. Saprotrophic nutrition - Wikipedia

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    Saprotrophic plants or bacterial flora are called saprophytes (sapro-'rotten material' + -phyte 'plant'), although it is now believed [citation needed] that all plants previously thought to be saprotrophic are in fact parasites of microscopic fungi or of other plants.

  3. Saprotrophic bacteria - Wikipedia

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    All saprotrophic bacteria are unicellular prokaryotes, and reproduce asexually through binary fission. [2] Variation in the turnover times (the rate at which a nutrient is depleted and replaced in a particular nutrient pool) of the bacteria may be due in part to variation in environmental factors including temperature, soil moisture, soil pH, substrate type and concentration, plant genotype ...

  4. Saprophytes - Wikipedia

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    Saprophyte may refer to: . Saprotrophs; organisms, particularly fungi, which obtain nutrients directly from dead organic matter or wastes; Myco-heterotrophs; plants, fungi, or micro-organisms that live on dead or decomposing matter and parasitize fungi, rather than dead organic matter directly.

  5. Heterotroph - Wikipedia

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    Saprotrophs (also called lysotrophs) are chemoheterotrophs that use extracellular digestion in processing decayed organic matter. The process is most often facilitated through the active transport of such materials through endocytosis within the internal mycelium and its constituent hyphae .

  6. Primary nutritional groups - Wikipedia

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    Organotrophs use organic compounds as electron/hydrogen donors. Lithotrophs use inorganic compounds as electron/hydrogen donors.. The electrons or hydrogen atoms from reducing equivalents (electron donors) are needed by both phototrophs and chemotrophs in reduction-oxidation reactions that transfer energy in the anabolic processes of ATP synthesis (in heterotrophs) or biosynthesis (in autotrophs).

  7. Saprobiont - Wikipedia

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    Saprobionts are organisms that digest their food externally and then absorb the products. [1] [2] This process is called saprotrophic nutrition.Fungi are examples of saprobiontic organisms, which are a type of decomposer.

  8. Thanatophage - Wikipedia

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    Saprophyte (-phyte meaning "plant") is a botanical term that is no longer in popular use, as such plants have been discovered to actually be parasitic on fungi. [2]There are no real saprotrophic organisms that are embryophytes, [citation needed] and fungi and bacteria are no longer placed in the plant kingdom.

  9. Heterotrophic nutrition - Wikipedia

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    Heterotrophic nutrition is a mode of nutrition in which organisms depend upon other organisms for food to survive. They can't make their own food like Green plants. ...