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Types of nutrition

Nutrition is essential for living organisms, categorized into autotrophic and heterotrophic types. Autotrophic organisms produce their own food using sunlight or chemical compounds, while heterotrophic organisms rely on organic matter from autotrophs. Heterotrophic nutrition includes holozoic, saprophytic, and parasitic methods, each with distinct processes for obtaining energy.

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Types of nutrition

Nutrition is essential for living organisms, categorized into autotrophic and heterotrophic types. Autotrophic organisms produce their own food using sunlight or chemical compounds, while heterotrophic organisms rely on organic matter from autotrophs. Heterotrophic nutrition includes holozoic, saprophytic, and parasitic methods, each with distinct processes for obtaining energy.

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Types of nutrition

Nutrition is a fundamental process for living organisms, through which solid


foods are ingested, which are converted through digestion into macromolecules
or nutrients necessary for the biological processes that occur in living
organisms. The living organisms present on the planet are very varied and
numerous, for this reason each one of them feeds in a different way, according
to its needs and characteristics. There are two types of nutrition: autotrophic
nutrition and heterotrophic nutrition.

Chemoautotrophs: In this type of nutrition, organisms obtain their energy


from the oxidation of chemical compounds that are around them. It is
generally carried out by archaebacteria or extreme bacteria, such as
Heterotrophic nutrition: in this type of nutrition, organisms are not able to thermophilic, sulfurous, nitrifying and methanogenic bacteria.
produce their own food, so they feed on the products or organic matter
produced by autotrophic organisms, which makes them dependent on them
in order to survive.

Types of heterotrophic nutrition Photoautotrophs: They are a type of organisms that


synthesize their food, converting inorganic material
into organic material, using sunlight as an energy
source. Generally this type of nutrition is provided by
plants, algae and some bacteria.

Holozoic nutrition is a method of nutrition that involves the


ingestion of liquid or solid organic material, its digestion,
absorption and assimilation to use it as a source of energy
in the body. ... In this process, food that is ingested as a Autotrophic Nutrition: In this type of nutrition, organisms are
solid particle is digested and absorbed. able to produce their own food, by transforming inorganic
compounds into organic compounds, using sunlight or
chemical compounds as an energy source. Organisms that
feed autotrophically are classified into two groups:
photoautotrophs and chemoautotrophs.

A saprophyte is a heterotrophic organism that obtains its


energy from dead organic matter or from detritus
Parasitic nutrition: also known as parasitism. This type of heterotrophic
discarded by other living beings, from which it extracts the
nutrition is typical of organisms that feed on other living beings without
organic compounds it requires as nutrients. killing them, for example, worms, lice, ticks, among others.

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