an organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms

A substance that grows on moist dead organisms after a period of time. These are also called saprophytes and play an important role in returning nutrients to the soil from dead and decaying matter.

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. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms. Least likely to be called a consumer.

An animal that eats both plants and animals. An organism that eats secondary consumers. An animal that eats other animals. Any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile.

An organism that absorbs nutrients from the environment. Water nitrogen and carbon cycles. A n is an organism that breaks down dead organisms and waste. The process in which a unicellular organism transfers some of its genetic material to another unicellular orgaism decomposer an organism that breaks down chemicals from wastes and dead organisms and returns important materials to the soil and water.

A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. An organism that eats only plants. An organisms particular role in an ecosystem or how it makes its living. An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.

An organism that eats other organisms. An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms. Organisms that break down waste and dead organisms are called decomposers. Others are decomposers generally microscopic bacteria and fungi that break down wastes.

Decomposers are vital organisms that grow by breaking down dead and decaying matter. Place where an organism lives.