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Fungi are described as decomposers in most food webs. The typical fungus secretes digestive enzymes from its body that breaks down dead organic matter into inorganic nutrient. Without these decomposers (bacteria and fungi) carbon, nitrogen, and other elements would remain tied up in organic matter.
<h2>What are decomposers?</h2>
An organism, usually a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down the cells of dead plants and animals into simpler substances.
Fungus are any of a diverse group of eukaryotic single-celled or multinucleate organisms that live by decomposing and absorbing the organic material in which they grow, comprising the mushrooms, molds, mildews, smuts, rusts, and yeasts, and classified in the kingdom of Fungi or, in some classification systems, in the division Fungi (Thallophyta) of the kingdom Plantae.
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