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decomposers
Saprotrophic fungi and bacteria that absorb nutrients from nonliving organic material such as corpses, fallen plant material, and the wastes of living organisms, and convert them into inorganic forms.
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Decomposers and Detritivores utilise energy from wastes or dead organisms, and so complete the cycle by returning nutrients to the soil or water, and carbon dioxide to the air and water. See water cycle for more on water's role.
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decomposers: the organisms of decay; usually bacteria and fungi.
dendrites: the short extensions of the neuron.
deoxyribonucleic acid: see DNA.
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Decomposers are organisms, mostly bacteria and fungi that recycle nutrients from decaying organic material. Decomposers break down detritus, nonliving organic matter, into inorganic matter.
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detritus Dead organic matter and the decomposers that live on it.
Deuteromycetes A miscellaneous assemblage of fungi also termed the imperfect fungi because the sexual reproductive features are either not known, not used, or have been reduced ...
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Identify autotrophs, heterotrophs, decomposers in an ecosystem.
Identify a food chain within a food web.
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Probably at the base of the mat, mainly, at the bottom where there's not enough light. Mostly the organisms there are decomposers, so they're breaking down the mat using the organic carbon for their own growth.
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The sediments underlying the profundal zone also support a large population of bacteria and fungi. The decomposers break down the organic matter reaching them, releasing inorganic nutrients for recycling.
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biological/biotic factors -- Living factors such as decomposers, scavengers and predators.
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consumers -- animals, which can be primary consumers (herbivorous), or secondary or tertiary consumers (carnivorous).
decomposers -- bacteria, mushrooms which degrade organic matter of all categories, and restore minerals to the environment.
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