Multiple choice

Which of the following is saprophytic in nutrition?

  1. Fungi

  2. Virus

  3. Algae

  4. Cyanobacteria

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Explanation

Fungi obtain nutrition by absorbing dissolved organic matter from dead substrates - the saprophytic mode. Viruses are non-living, algae are photosynthetic autotrophs, and cyanobacteria are also photosynthetic - none share the fungal absorptive heterotrophic nutrition.