What describes the diet of a Saprotroph?
-Bones and feathers
-Animals and fungus
-Plants and fungus

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What describes the diet of a Saprotroph? 
-Bones and feathers 
-Animals and fungus 
-Plants and fungus

thomaster · Answer

Saprotrophs digest dead or decayed organic matter.
Fungi are saprotrophs, what do you know about their diet?

anonymous · Answer

well Saprotroph is latin for 'dead eater' so I assumed they ate dead or decaying material. So that would make them a decomposer like the fungus and most funguses are capable of digesting the large amount of cellulose in plants, but I don't have any of those as a option. Unless Plants and Fungus counts.

thomaster · Answer

I think fungi would eat dead fungi too.
So I'd go for option 3 if I had to answer this question.

anonymous · Answer

okay :) thank you very much.