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Do all animals have the same mode of feeding justify your answer

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Answered by sreevathsan
9
The method of obtaining food by an organism is called modes of nutrition. There are two modes of nutrition. They are:

1) Autotrophic

2) Heterotrophic

Heterotrophic Mode of Nutrition

All the animals cannot make their own food from simple inorganic material like carbon dioxide and water. They depend on other organisms for food. This is called heterotrophic mode of nutrition. The organisms which depend on other organisms for food are called heterotrophs. For example, man, dog, cat, deer, tiger, cow, non-green plants like yeast are all heterotrophs. They depend on plants or other organisms for their food.

Types of Heterotrophic Nutrition

There are three types of heterotrophic mode of nutrition. They are:

i) Saprotrophic nutrition

ii) Parasitic nutrition

iii) Holozoic nutrition

Saprotrophic nutrition

Sapro means rotten. There are organisms which feed on dead and decaying organic matter for obtaining their food. These organisms feed on rotting wood of dead and decaying trees, rotten leaves, dead animals, rotten bread etc. Such organisms are called saprophytes.

Fungi and many bacteria are saprophytes. These saprophytes break down the complex organic matter from the dead and decaying organic matter into simpler substances outside their body. These simpler substances are then absorbed by saprophytes.

Parasitic Nutrition

It is that mode of nutrition in which organisms feed on other living organisms, called their host, without killing them. The organisms which obtain food in a manner are called parasites.

Parasites harm the host, which may be a plant or an animal. Parasites cause diseases to mankind, domestic animals, and crops. Fungi, bacteria, a few plants like cuscuta and some animals like plasmodium and roundworms undergo parasitic mode of nutrition.

Holozoic Nutrition

Holozoic is a mode of nutrition in which organisms eat solid food. The food may be a plant product or animal product. In this process, an organism ingests the complex organic food material into its body and then digests the food which is then absorbed into the body cells. The unabsorbed food is thrown out of the body of the organisms by the process of egestion. Man, cat, dog, bear, giraffe, fog, fish, etc., have holozoic mode of nutrition.

On the basis of food habits animals can be divided into three groups. They are:

i) Herbivores

ii) Carnivores

iii) Omnivores

Herbivores

Herbivores are those animals which eat only plants like grass, leaves, fruits, bark etc. The examples of herbivorous animals are cow, goat, sheep, horse, camel, deer, etc.
Answered by EllyRegina
7
no because some has sanguivorous mode of nutrition some are nectarivorous some are microphagous, some are monophagous, some are holophytic, holozoic, saprophagic, saprophyti, saprozoic, and coprophagic there are several nodes of nutrition of animals
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