saprophytic in English

adjective

pertaining to an organism that feeds on dead or decaying flesh

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1. Botrytis fungi are both saprophytic and parasitic

2. 22 The prothalli are saprophytic, irregularly branched, subterranean bodies.

3. Corallorhiza striata (striped Coralroot) is a perennial saprophytic in the orchid family

4. Saprophytic, the absorption of organic foods in solution through the body wall.

5. Botry-Zen® is a live spore preparation of a non-pathogenic saprophytic fungus

6. Coralroot (countable and uncountable, plural Coralroots) Any of several saprophytic orchids of the genus Corallorhiza.

7. Agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside

8. Crested Coralroot is a saprophytic orchid that grows in open, dry woods with rich soil and obtains nutrients from dead plant material

9. Blusher - yellowish edible agaric that usually turns red when touched Amanita rubescens , blushing mushroom agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an …

10. Rapid colonization of the needle and sporulation of R. parkeri coincide with needle abscission, occurring before substantial colonization of the needles by saprophytic fungi.

11. The base or basal species in a food web are those species without prey and can include autotrophs or saprophytic detritivores (i.e., the community of decomposers in soil, biofilms, and periphyton).

12. The majority of Ascomycetes are saprophytic, some are parasites of insects and other animals, and some are responsible for causing destructive plant diseases. Some Ascomycetes characteristically grow on dung and are popularly called coprophilous fungi (Peziza)

13. Antigenic cross-reactions were found between the cytoplasms of M. leprae and certain cytoplasm determinants of M. avium, M. gallinarum, M. tuberculosis, M. simiae, M. kansasii, Mycococcus capsulatus, Actinomyces israelii, A. naeslundii, and some strains of saprophytic mycobacteria.

14. Chloroplast (klōr`əplăst', klôr`–), a complex, discrete green structure, or organelle, contained in the cytoplasm of plant cells.Chloroplasts are reponsible for the green color of almost all plants and are lacking only in plants that do not make their own food, such as fungi and nongreen parasitic or saprophytic higher plants.

15. Chloroplast (klōr`əplăst', klôr`–), a complex, discrete green structure, or organelle, contained in the cytoplasm of plant cells.Chloroplasts are reponsible for the green color of almost all plants and are lacking only in plants that do not make their own food, such as fungi and nongreen parasitic or saprophytic higher plants.

16. Bacterium definition is - any of a domain (Bacteria) of chiefly round, spiral, or rod-shaped single-celled prokaryotic microorganisms that typically live in soil, water, organic matter, or the bodies of plants and animals, that make their own food especially from sunlight or are saprophytic or parasitic, are often motile by means of flagella, reproduce especially by binary fission, and include