Discuss 3 types of heterotrophic nutrition with the help of examples

1.	Discuss 3 types of heterotrophic nutrition with the help of examples
Answer» In a holozoic mode of nutrition, the organism feeds on complex organic matter. They ingest the complex organic matter, digest and absorb the nutrients. Example: Dog, Human beings, etc. Examples of parasitic mode of nutrition are mosquito,ticks, lice, bedbugs , tapeworm . The mode of nutrition in which an organism obtains nutrients from dead and decaying organic matter is called saprophytic nutrition. Example - Rhizopus (bread mould), Mucor (pin mould), Yeast, Agaricus (mushroom) . Heterotrophic nutrition is of three types – saprophytic, parasitic and holozoic.

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