what are the difference between autotrophic nutrition and heterotrophic 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.
● Heterotrophs rely on other organisms for their food whereas autotrophs are independent of any organisms.
Answer:
- AUTOTROPHIC NUTRITION
It is mode in which organisms make their own food by inorganic materials ( CO2, H2O, etc. ).
Example: Green plants.
- HETEROTROPHIC NUTRITION
It is the mode of nutrition in which organism cannot make their own food from inorganic materials.
Example: Humans, Animals, etc.
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THREE TYPES OF HETEROTROPHIC NUTRITION :-
- Sacro phytic
It is nutrition in which organisms get their food from dead and decaying organisms. They break down their food outside their body and absorb it.
- Parasitic
It is the nutrition in which organism get their food from their host organism without killing them.
- Holozoic
It is the type of nutrition in which organism takes food directly, digests it and absorbs it.
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