GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Saprophytic nutrition is the mode of nutrition in mushrooms. Organisms that die and decay organic matter are used as food in saprophytic nutrition. This process uses components contained in dead and decaying material for cellular needs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Saprophytic nutrition: The nutrition in which an organism obtains its food from the dead and decaying organic matter of plants and animals is called saprophytic nutrition.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mushrooms are advanced members of a fungi group which belong to class Basidiomycetes. They grow on the dead and decaying matter like dung, old rotten logs which are rich in the organic matter. Therefore, they are saprophytic fungi.