by admin | Aug 15, 2020 | Nutrition
In saprophytic nutrition the organisms obtain their food from dead and decaying organic matter of dead plants, dead animals and other decomposing organic matter. And the organisms which obtain their food from dead and decaying organic matter of dead plants, dead...
by admin | Aug 15, 2020 | Nutrition
The organisms having holozoic nutrition are further classified in three categories. These are: Carnivores Herbivores and Omnivore Carnivores The organisms which eat other animals or meat only are called carnivores. For example, lion, bear, snake, crocodile, lizard,...
by admin | Aug 15, 2020 | Nutrition
A heterotrophic organism can obtain its food from other organisms in following three ways: Holozoic nutrition Saprophytic nutrition Parasitic nutrition Holozoic nutrition Holozoic nutrition takes place in those organisms which take solid or liquid food through the...
by admin | Aug 15, 2020 | Nutrition
The term ‘heterotroph’ consists of two words ‘hetero’ and ‘troph’. ‘Hetero’ means ‘others’ and ‘troph’ means ‘nutrition’. So, in heterotrophic nutrition the organisms cannot make their own food from carbon dioxide, water and...
by admin | Aug 15, 2020 | Nutrition
All the organisms do not have same mode of nutrition, i.e. different organisms have different methods of obtaining and utilizing food. Based on the mode of nutrition, all the living organisms can be classified in two groups: Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Autotrophic...
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