Organisms that feed on dead organic matter are called
A) chemosynthetic.
B) autotrophic.
C) heterotrophic.
D) saprotrophs.
E) parasitic.

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Organisms can be classified by the way that they obtain food; heterotrophs are organisms that ingest matter as a food source, parasites spend all or part of their lives feeding off of a host and saprotrophs digest food outside their bodies allowing any unused nutrients to be used by autotrophs who convert inorganic energy into an organic molecule. Autotrophs can be further broken down into photoautotrophs that use the energy of the sun and chemoautotrophs that use chemical energy.Bloom's

Organisms That Feed on Dead Organic Matter Are Called