Bread mould (Rhizopus) obtains its food as a
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. saprophyte
- Step 1: Modes of nutrition in heterotrophs depend on the origin of organic carbon and nutrients.
- Step 2: Rhizopus stolonifer (bread mould) secretes extracellular digestive enzymes onto decaying bread or dead organic substrates and absorbs the digested nutrients, functioning as an obligate saprophyte.
Answer
saprophyte.
Why not the others: 'producer' refers to autotrophs that fix carbon through photosynthesis; 'symbiont' lives in a mutually beneficial partnership with another living host; 'parasite' derives nutrients directly from a living host organism, inflicting harm.
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