NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -You might call a venus flytrap a ‘mixotroph’. Autotrophs make their own food (like most plants); heterotrophs get food from elsewhere (like animals, which eat other organisms), and mixotrophs can do both.

Detailed explanation-2: -So while carnivorous plants may be considered heterotrophic to a certain degree, for the most part they are autotrophic just like other plants.

Detailed explanation-3: -Both primary (herbivores) and secondary (carnivores and omnivores) consumers are heterotrophs, while primary producers are autotrophs.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.