Difference between Saprotrophs and Heterotrophs
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Saprotrophs |
Heterotrophs |
1. | Organisms which obtain their nutrition from dead and decaying matter are saprotrophic nutrition and organisms which are with saprotrophic nutrition are known as saprotrophs. | Organisms which are unable to prepare or make their food and which depends on the other for their nutrition or food is known as heterotrophs. |
2. | Cellular organisation in digestion of saprotrophs can be eukaryotic or prokaryotic. | Cellular organization in digestion of heterotrophs is mostly eukaryotic. |
3. | Digestion of the saprotrophs is extracellular type of digestion. | Digestion of heterotrophs is an intracellular type of digestion. |
4. | An extracellular type of digestion of saprotrophs usually utilizes organic matter as their source of energy. | An intracellular type of digestion of heterotrophs usually utilizes organic carbon as their source of carbon. |
5. | The habitat of saprotrophs belongs to the dead matter or decaying matter. | The habitat of heterotrophs depends on the organisms. Hence, it can be airborne, aquatic, and terrestrial. |
6. | Example of digestion of saprotrophs includes bacteria and some fungi. | Examples of digestion of heterotrophs includes mammals or digestion of higher organisms. |