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Published on: August 12, 2026
Decomposers like fungi and bacteria are:
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Decomposers such as fungi and bacteria obtain food from dead and decaying organic matter, so they are heterotrophs .
They digest organic matter externally and absorb nutrients, hence they are saprotrophs .
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