Here are 10 One-Word Answer Type Questions from the topic Saprotrophs (from your provided PDF), with answers and explanations after each question as requested:
One-Word Answer Type Questions
Topic: Saprotrophs
1. Question: What is the mode of nutrition in fungi?
• Answer: Saprotrophic
• Explanation: Fungi obtain their food from dead and decaying organic matter, which is called saprotrophic nutrition.
2. Question: What is the name of organisms that feed on dead and decaying matter?
• Answer: Saprotrophs
• Explanation: Organisms like fungi that obtain nutrients from dead and decaying matter are called saprotrophs.
3. Question: Name one common saprotroph seen growing on bread.
• Answer: Fungi
• Explanation: Fungi, such as bread mould, grow on moist bread and feed on it by saprotrophic nutrition.
4. Question: What is the network of thread-like structures in fungi called?
• Answer: Hyphae
• Explanation: Hyphae are the thread-like structures of fungi that help in absorbing nutrients from decaying matter.
5. Question: Which component do fungi absorb from the dead organic matter?
• Answer: Nutrients
• Explanation: Fungi absorb nutrients from the substances on which they grow, such as bread or wood.
6. Question: In which weather do fungi commonly grow on clothes and food?
• Answer: Rainy
• Explanation: Fungi grow rapidly in hot and humid conditions, especially during the rainy season.
7. Question: What is the name of the mode of nutrition where digestion happens outside the body?
• Answer: Saprotrophic
• Explanation: In saprotrophic nutrition, organisms release digestive juices on dead matter and absorb the digested nutrients.
8. Question: What type of relationship do saprotrophs have with the dead material?
• Answer: Dependent
• Explanation: Saprotrophs depend on dead and decaying matter for their nutrition.
9. Question: Name one food item that fungi spoil in humid weather.
• Answer: Pickles
• Explanation: Fungi grow on pickles, leather, and food items in humid weather and spoil them.
10. Question: What do fungi release in the air that helps them spread?
• Answer: Spores
• Explanation: Fungi reproduce by releasing spores that spread through air and grow on moist and decaying surfaces.
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