Question

Which of the following is true about organisms taking autotrophic mode of nutrition?
1. Make their own food
2. Lives on other organisms flesh
3. Both 
4. None

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Make their own food

The correct answer is to make their own food.

• Nutrition is the mode by which the organisms take and utilizes food in the body.
• Plants, animals, and human beings all require nutrients for their growth and development.
• Plants are the only living thing on earth that can synthesize their own food by the biological process called photosynthesis.
• Nutrients include vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, etc.
• Autotrophic nutrition is exhibited by green plants and they make their own food by the biological process of photosynthesis with the help of light, carbon dioxide, chlorophyll pigments, water, and other essential minerals from the soil.
• Plants absorb nutrients through their roots.