The Irish potato famine in the mid 1840s was caused by which heterotrophic protist decomposer that secreted digestive enzymes onto potatoes?

a. A water mold
b. A red algae
c. A nematode worm
d. A protozoan
e. A fungus


Ans: a. A water mold

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