Picture yourself walking through mud. When you get out of the mud, it covers your shoes and it probably splattered onto your pants. This sticky mud contains a lot of derived from .

organic matter ;  plant decay

Explanation:

Mud

Mud is a loamy soil that is mixed with clay or silt and water. It is a sticky substance and does not flow. Mud is usually formed after any rainfall a or is formed near the water bodies.

Thus water is the main component for the formation of mud along with soil, plant decays, clay minerals, rock decay, etc. Mud is a sticky substance.

In the context, when I got out of the mud, the mud covered my shoe and it got splattered all over my pants. Thus the sticky mud contains a lot of organic matter that is derived from the plant decays.

the 2nd option is the answer

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