SCIENCE
VIRUS AND BACTERIA
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Question
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Autotroph
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Heterotroph
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Both
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A heterotroph is an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients. The term stems from the Greek words hetero for “other” and trophe for “nourishment.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Animals cannot make food on their own. They depend on plants for their food either directly or indirectly. And therefore, nutrition in animals is said to be heterotrophic.
Detailed explanation-3: -Heterotrophic nutrition is the mode of nutrition where the organism is unable to prepare its food and hence, depends upon plants or other organisms for nutrition.
Detailed explanation-4: -Heterotrophic organisms depend on other organisms for deriving nutrition. Example: Fungi, animals, etc. Animals are heterotrophs. They do not possess chlorophyll pigment to undergo photosynthesis, hence they feed on living organisms.