what are microconsumers

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G. Lakshmi answered this

Micro consumers are the decomposers. They are the heterotrophic organisms that feed on living or dead organic material. Microorganisms like bacteria and fungi are micro consumers.

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Divya Janjua answered this

Micro consumers came from the word microscope because they are very small animals examples of these are flies bacteria small maggots ,worms and other scavengers and they can considered as decomposers.

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Nitika Upadhyaya answered this

Micro consumers are the ones who eat big or large food examples of these are omnivores, carnivores , and herbivores.

Decomposers are organisms that cause decay or decomposition of dead bodies by returning their nutrients to the environment

Producers are the ones who produce their own food by using carbon-dioxide, sunlight and water this is called photosynthesis are also known as photosynthetic organisms and autotrophs auto means self and tropes means plant. They may be classified as plants.

Consumers are the ones who depend on the producers as plants for food some examples of these are carnivores, omnivores, herbivores. In some books you will find insectivores but they are classified as carnivores.

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Raman Mishra answered this

consumer organism In the widest sense, a heterotrophic organism that feeds on living or dead organic material. Two main categories are recognized:
a. macroconsumers, mainly animals (herbivores, carnivores, and detritivores), which wholly or partly ingest other living organisms or organic particulate matter
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b. micro-consumers, mainly bacteria and fungi, which feed by breaking down complex organic compounds in dead protoplasm, absorbing some of the decomposition products, and at the same time releasing inorganic and relatively simple organic substances to the environment. Sometimes the term ‘consumer’ is confined to macroconsumers, microconsumers being known as ‘decomposers’. Consumers may then be termed ‘primary’ (herbivores), ‘secondary’ (herbivore-eating carnivores), and so on, according to their position in the foodchain. Macroconsumers are also sometimes termed phagotrophs or biophages, while microconsumers correspondingly are termed saprotrophs orsaprophages.