NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Decomposers, like fungi and bacteria, complete the food chain. Decomposers turn organic wastes, such as decaying plants, into inorganic materials, such as nutrient-rich soil. They complete the cycle of life, returning nutrients to the soil or oceans for use by autotrophs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Detritivores eat fragments of dead matter in the ecosystem, ultimately returning nutrients to the soil, air, & water where they can be recycled.

Detailed explanation-3: -decomposer. noun. organism that breaks down dead organic material; also sometimes referred to as detritivores. ecosystem.

Detailed explanation-4: -Decomposers: Detritivores and Saprotrophs Decomposers are a group of organisms that essentially break down decaying organic matter. There are two major groups that make up the decomposers: detritivores that feed on dead matter and saprotrophs.

Detailed explanation-5: -Scavengers play an important role the food web. They keep an ecosystem free of the bodies of dead animals, or carrion. Scavengers break down this organic material and recycle it into the ecosystem as nutrients. Some birds are scavengers.