Discussion
Any organism that obtains its nutrition from dead organic material is known as :
Answer: C
An organism that feeds on dead organic matter is a saprotroph.
Saprotrophs, such as most fungi and many bacteria, secrete enzymes onto dead plant and animal material and absorb the dissolved products. They are the decomposers that return nutrients to the soil.
Autotrophs make their own food from inorganic substances, by photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Chemotrophs obtain energy from chemical reactions and include chemoautotrophs that feed on nothing organic. Heterotrophs is a broader term covering every organism that relies on organic food, including herbivores and predators that eat living organisms; saprotrophs are the particular heterotrophs the question describes.
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