What are the differences between autotrophic nutrition and heterotrophic nutrition?
AUTOTROPHIC NUTRITION | HETEROTROPHIC NUTRITION |
v Food is synthesized by autotrophic organisms like plants, using water, minerals, CO2 in the presence of sunlight and chlorophyll. v Plants and few bacteria perform autotrophic nutrition. v Chlorophyll (green pigment) is necessary. | v Heterotrophic nutrition is obtaining food from the heterotrophs, since it cannot synthesize its own food. v Animals and some fungi have heterotrophic nutrition that cannot make their own food. v Chlorophyll (green pigment) is not required. |