Question

write different between
a) Autotrophic nutrition - hetertropic nutrition​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Autotrophs are organisms that prepare their own food through the process of photosynthesis, whereas heterotrophs are organisms that cannot prepare their own food and depend upon autotrophs for nutrition.”

Answer 2

A N S W E R :

$\underline{\mathcal{\green{AUTOTROPHIC\:\:NUTRITION\::}}}$

The word autotrophic has been derived from two Greek words auto meaning self and trophe meaning nutrition. In this type of nutrition, living organisms synthesize their own food from the inorganic substances by the utilization of energy.The organisms which show this type of nutrition are called autotrophs.

Depending upon the source of energy, autotrophic nutrition is of two types :

• Photosynthetic nutrition.
• Chemosynthetic nutrition.

$\underline{\mathcal{\green{HETEROTROPHIC\:\:NUTRITION\::}}}$

The word heterotrophic is derived from two Greek word - Hetero meaning different and trophe meaning nutrition. In this type of nutrition, the organism can't prepare it's own food but is dependent on other organisms for it's food requirements, such as all animals, some bacteria, fungi & some non-green plants.

Heterotrophic nutrition is further divided into following three types :

• Saprophytic nutrition.
• Parasitic nutrition.
• Holozoic nutrition.