FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. Because autotrophs produce their own food, they are sometimes called producers. Plants are the most familiar type of autotroph, but there are many different kinds of autotrophic organisms.

Detailed explanation-2: -Autotrophs. Autotrophs are organisms that make their own food. Most autotrophs use the energy in sunlight to make food in a process called photosynthesis. Only three types of organisms-plants, algae, and some bacteria-can make food through photosynthesis. Autotrophs are also called producers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Autotrophs are vital to all ecosystems because all organisms need organic molecules and only autotrophs can produce them from inorganic compounds. There are two basic types of autotrophs: photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most plants are autotrophs, but all autotrophic plants are photoautotrophs. Plants have structures called chloroplasts that allow them to capture the sunlight used for photosynthesis. Plants also get nutrition from water, various minerals in the soil, such as nitrogen and phosphorous, and carbon dioxide in the air.