Fill in the gaps below to explain what saprotrophic nutrition is: Saprophytes include fungi and bacteria. They feed on dead or matter, and do not have a specialized internal system. They feed by secreting an array of such as proteases, amylases and celluloses onto the food material outside the body, from the very tip of the structure, called the .
These enzymes then break down the food source, which may be decaying leaf matter, or rotting fruit, and the products can then be absorbed by across the cell and membrane and into the organism.
Wall All Some Decaying Digestive Enzymes Hypha Soluble Diffusion

Rease is an enzyme used by plants to break down urea (a nitrogen-containing compound) into carbon dioxide and ammonia. urease urea > > > carbon dioxide and ammonia ammonia is broken down by plants into a nitrogen source plants need to grow. thus, plants could not use urea as a nitrogen source unless it was first converted to ammonia. in soybean plants there are two different kinds of urease, one produced in the seeds and the other produced in the leaves of the plant. three types of soybean plants were used in a set of experiments: normal soybeans and two mutant strains, one lacking the urease in the seeds only (strain 1) and one lacking urease in the leaves only (strain 2). experiment 1 separate areas in a field were planted with normal, strain 1, and strain 2 soybeans. all types of soybeans appeared to grow, flower, and produce seeds equally well. there were no externally detectable differences among the strains. experiment 2 small pieces of plant leaves of equal weight were obtained from each type of soybean plant and separately placed on media in culture dishes. tissue growing in this way will become an unorganized clump of cells referred to as callus. to provide a controlled nitrogen source, half the tissue samples of each type were placed on media containing urea, and the other half of the samples were placed on media containing ammonia. after 30 days, the weight gain for each of the callus samples was determined. results are shown in the table below.