thumb|Yellow slime mold growing on a bin of wet paper
thumb|Yellow slime mold growing on a bin of wet paper
Biodegradation is the breakdown of organic matter by microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi. In contrast to biodegradation, phytodegradation, which has few applications, relies on green plants to effect the degradation.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).