Question

Most fungi are saprobes. What does this mean?

Answer 1

Hello and welcome @crimsonlynx ,
A saprobe is an organism that derives its nutrition from the dead remains of other organisms; a scavenger, if you will. Saprobic fungi usually live on dead vegetable matter (sticks, leaves, logs...), as they are the only multi-celled organisms that can digest the structural proteins cellulose and lignin, the two major components of wood (and, in fact, the two major components of plants’ cell walls in general).

Answer 2

Feeds on dead and decaying organisms