Question

difference difference between autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition
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Answer 1

Answer:

Autotrophs are organisms that can produce their own food from the substances available in their surroundings using light (photosynthesis) or chemical energy (chemosynthesis). Heterotrophs cannot synthesize their own food and rely on other organisms — both plants and animals — for nutrition.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Autotrophic Mode of Nutrition :-

Autotrophic nutrition is that mode of nutrition in which an organism makes its own food from the simple inorganic materials like carbon dioxide and water present in the surroundings (with the help of sunlight energy).

Example -

• The green plants

The green plants make their food from the process called photosynthesis.

Chemical equation :-

• 6CO2 + 6H2O + Light energy --chlorophyll--> C6H12O6 + 6O2

Heterotrophic Mode of Nutrition :-

Heterotrophic nutrition is that mode of nutrition in which an organism cannot make its own food from simple inorganic materials like carbon dioxide and water, and depends on other organism for its food.

Example -

• Human, Tiger, Deer, etc..