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Why are decomposers, such as mushrooms, that live on decaying material considered to be heterotrophs and not autotrophs?
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Why are decomposers, such as mushrooms, that live on decaying material considered to be heterotrophs and not autotrophs?
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Why are decomposers, such as mushrooms, that live on decaying material considered to be heterotrophs and not autotrophs?
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because they do not use photosynthesis to produce their own energy
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