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Difference between the Autotrophic and the Heterotropic nutrition.​

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Autotrophic nutrition is a mode of nutrition in which an organism prepares its own food with the help of simple inorganic materials like water and carbon dioxide from the surrounding. Heterotrophic nutrition on the other hand, is a mode of nutrition in which an organism cannot prepare its own food and depend upon other organisms for its food.

For autotrophic nutrition, presence of chlorophyll (green pigment) and sunlight are necessary. In other words, autotrophic nutrition takes place during day time. On the contrary, no green pigment and sunlight is required for heterotrophic nutrition.

All green plants synthesizing their own food through the biological process referred to as photosynthesis are examples of autotrophs. On the other hand, animals including herbivores, omnivores and carnivores are examples of heterotrophs.

In the food chain, autotrophs are the primary producers whereas heterotrophs are consumers; they are place at secondary or tertiary level.

Types of autotrophic mode of nutrition include: phototrophic and chemotrophic whereas types of heterotrophic mode of nutrition include: holozoic, saprophytic, parasitic and symbiotic association.

Heterotrophs rely on other organisms for their food whereas autotrophs are independent of any organisms.

Heterotrophs are not capable of storing energy whereas autotrophs are capable of storing sunlight and chemical energy.

Heterotrophs can move from one place to another in search of food while autotrophs cannot move from one place to another.

In autotrophs, the process of digestion is absent whereas in heterotrophs, the process of digestion is required to convert complex molecules into simpler molecules.