Difference between Parasites and Saprotrophic
No. | Parasites |
Saprotrophic |
1. | Parasite is defined as the organism which do not contains chlorophyll and depends on the other organism or host for the nutrients or to obtain nutrients. | Saprophytes are defined as the organisms which take in nutrients from other dead and decaying matter. |
2. | Parasites mainly use intracellular type of digestion. | Saprophytes mainly use extracellular type of digestion. |
3. | Parasites are mainly depends on the other organisms. Therefore, they harm their host. | Saprophytes are mainly depends on the dead and decaying matter. |
4. | Parasites usually absorbs their nutrients through haustoria. | Cell wall of the saprophytes helps to absorb nutrients. |
5. | Here, one organism gets benefited and other gets harmed. | Here, one organism gets their nutrition and the other organism is not harmed because other organism is dead organism. |
6. | Examples of parasites include ticks, fleas, lice, roundworm, platyhelminthes, plasmodium and mites etc. | Examples of saprophyte includes Bacteria, mushrooms and most of the other fungi. |
7. | In plants, Cucuta plant is parasite. | Saprophytes include fungi. |