what is meaning of heterotrophic
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Heterotrophic nutrition is nutrition obtained by digesting organic compounds. Animals, fungi, many prokaryotes and protoctists are unable to synthesize organic compounds to use as food. They are known as heterotrophs. Heterotrophic organisms have to acquire and take in all the organic substances they need to survive.
Types of heterotrophic nutrition:-
There are four different types of heterotrophs which include herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and decomposers. Herbivores, carnivores and omnivores exhibit the holozoic type of heterotrophic nutrition.
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an organism that cannot manufacture its own food and depends on other organisms for its food and energy, mostly animals or plants are called heterotrophic.
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