Fill in the gaps below to explain what saprotrophic nutrition is: Saprophytes include fungi and bacteria. They feed on dead or matter, and do not have a specialized internal system. They feed by secreting an array of such as proteases, amylases and celluloses onto the food material outside the body, from the very tip of the structure, called the .
These enzymes then break down the food source, which may be decaying leaf matter, or rotting fruit, and the products can then be absorbed by across the cell and membrane and into the organism.
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