Parasite
• A parasite takes readymade food from the organism on which it feeds.
• They feed on a living organism.
• The organism on which it feeds is called host.
• It deprives the host of valuable nutrients.
Saprotrophs
• They secrete the digestive juices on the matter they live and convert it into a solution and then absorb it.
• They feed on dead and decaying organism.
• They do not feed on a living organism.
• There is no host at all.
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