eli5: Why is fecal matter so nutritious for plants if it’s considered “body waste”?

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Since poop is the solid waste that the majority of organisms produce, how is it so packed with nutrients that plants like?

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Plants have to take in all of their chemical nutrients in the simplest form possible and then from those base structures create more complex chemical structures as needed, as they don’t have mouths and digestive systems. Animals can eat complex chemicals and break them down into simpler ones either to use them in that form, or use them to construct complex structures anything that can’t be used as a building block or broken down will be disposed of as waste.

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