Question

Differentiate between holozoic and saprophytic nutrition

Answer 1

Holozoic means ingestion of whole food and internal processing of liquid and solid food materials. eg: amoeba.

saprophytic means extracellular digestion of food, that is decaying dead organic matters. eg: fungi

Answer 2

Holozoic and saprophytic nutrition:

• Holozoic nutrition defines modes of nutrition like food particles digestion and absorption whereas saprophytic nutrition defines the nutrition mode of fungi and bacteria.
• Holozoic nutrition cannot digest their food outside their body and examples are animals like dog, monkeys, etc. Saprophytic nutrition can digest food outside the body and example of this nutrition is Mushrooms.
• Holozoic nutrition uses complex food material which is organic. Saprophytic nutrition uses dead organic matter.