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What are the differences between autotrophic nutrition and heterotrophic nutrition?


Answer :

Autotrophic nutrition:
i. organisms makes or synthesizes their own food In this mode of nutrition .

ii.organisms depends on raw materials like carbon dioxide and water and synthesise their food in presence of sunlight.

iii.Green plants and algae undergo this type of nutrition process.

Heterotrophic nutrition:
i.organisms do not make or synthesizes their own food In this mode of nutrition

ii. as organisms don't prepare their own food so they depend on other organisms for their food.

iii.all the animals , bacteria and fungi undergo this mode of nutrition

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