Question

Let's play a quick game of autotroph or heterotroph. Is a tomato an autotroph or heterotroph?

Heterotroph
Autotroph​

Answer 1

Tomato is an AUTOTROPH. This can be explained as:-

• Autotrophs are the ones which can produce their own food.

• Heterotrophs are known as consumers. They depend on others for food and water.

So, according to this tomato is an autotroph as it can produce it's own food by the process of photosynthesis.

Answer 2

Tomato is an autotroph in the following.

• An autotroph makes its own food, and tomato makes its own food, so that is why it is an autotroph.
• They use the process of photosynthesis to transform water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide into oxygen, and simple sugars that the plant uses as fuel.
• These primary producers form the base of an ecosystem and fuel the next trophic levels.
• Plants are autotrophs, meaning that they make their own food using the energy from sunlight