Briefly explain about saprophytic nutrition.

Explanation

1) Saprophytic nutrition is that · nutrition in which an organism obtain its food from dead and decaying plant and animal bodies.
2) Organisms having saprophytic mode of nutrition are called saprophytes.
3) Fungi and many bacteria are saprophytes.
4) The saprophytes breakdown the comlex organic molecules present in dead and decaying matter and convert them into simple substances outside their body.
These simple substances are then absorbed by saprophytes as their food.