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What is heterotroph

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What is heterotroph
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Don'T Dare To Change It 5 years, 5 months ago

A heterotroph is an organism that cannot manufacture its own food by carbon fixation and therefore derives its intake of nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter.

Yogita Ingle 5 years, 5 months ago

Heterotrophs are the organisms which depend on other organisms for their food. 
Nutrition is the process by which an organism procures its nourishment, the supply of nutrients required by its body and cells to stay alive.Heterotrophs exhibit heterotrophic mode of nutrition. Heterotrophs are the organisms that depend on plants or other organisms for their food. Heterotrophic type of nutrition can be categorized into parasitic mode, saprophytic mode and symbiotic mode of nutrition. 

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