Autotrophic vs Heterotrophic Nutrition

Question 1

Autotrophic Nutrition: requires energy

Answer 1

one in which an organism uses simple inorganic compounds such as water, co2 and minerals to manufacture complex organic food substances such carbs, protein, lipids and vitamins.
e.g. Plants manufacture their own food by the process of photosynthesis.
Such organisms are called Autotrophs.

done by plants and some bacteria

Question 2

Heterotrophic Nutrition

Answer 2

occurs in animals, fungi and most bacteria.

involves organisms (animals) obtaining ready-made organic food from their environment Called Heterotrophs.

Question 3

Types of Heterotrophic Nutrition

Answer 3

Holozoic Nutrition (human)
Saprophytic Nutrition (bacteria, fungi)
Parasitic Nutrition (love vine)

Question 4

saprophytic nutrition

Answer 4

the nutrition mode in which organisms consume organic food in the form of dead and decomposed matter.

Example – Bread mold or Rhizopus, Mucor or pin mold, Agaricus (mushroom), and yeast.

Question 5

holozoic nutrition

Answer 5

the organisms obtain organic food by consuming other organisms. the complex organic food is ingested then digested into simple organic substances within the body of the organisms.
example humans

Question 6

parasitic nutrition

Answer 6

is a type of nutrition in which organisms live on or inside the bodies of their hosts and feed on them.