NEETBotanyRespiration in Plants
What type of organisms depend on dead and decaying matter for food?
Options
- AHerbivores
- BCarnivores
- CSaprophytes
- DOmnivores
Correct answer
C. Saprophytes
Step-by-step solution
Explanation : Saprophytes like fungi are dependent on dead and decaying matter. What is important to recognise is that ultimately all the food that is respired for life processes comes from photosynthesis. This chapter deals with cellular respiration or the mechanism of breakdown of food materials within the cell to release energy, and the trapping of this energy for synthesis of ATP