100. In which of the following groups of organisms food material is broken down outside the body and then absorbed. (a) Mushroom, Green plants, Amoeba (b) Yeast, Mushroom, Bread mold (c) Paramecium, Amoeba, Cuscuta (d) Cuscuta, Lice, Tapeworm
Solution : Yeast, mushroom and bread mould are saprophytes They break down and convert complex organic molecules present in dead and dead and decaying matter into simpler substances outside their body. These simpler substances are then absorbed by them, (i.e., saprotrophic nutrition).
