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Big Mama asked in Science & MathematicsOther - Science · 2 decades ago

Why are saprophytes good for the enviroment?

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  • zbelle
    Lv 6
    2 decades ago
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    A saprophyte is an organism that obtains its nutrition from assimilating organic matter. Like the fungi, the saprophyte is a heterotroph, meaning that it does not make its own food.

    Saprophytic plants obtain nutrition from decaying matter, breaking in down into nutrients, thus enriching the soil.

    Source(s): http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/l...
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