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Types of Nutrition and Photosynthesis

Organisms are classified as autotrophs, which produce their own food, or heterotrophs, which consume other organisms. Heterotrophic nutrition includes holozoic, saprophytic, and parasitic types, with holozoic nutrition involving ingestion, digestion, and absorption. Photosynthesis, essential for autotrophs, requires sunlight, chlorophyll, carbon dioxide, water, temperature, and enzymes to convert light energy into glucose.

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Types of Nutrition and Photosynthesis

Organisms are classified as autotrophs, which produce their own food, or heterotrophs, which consume other organisms. Heterotrophic nutrition includes holozoic, saprophytic, and parasitic types, with holozoic nutrition involving ingestion, digestion, and absorption. Photosynthesis, essential for autotrophs, requires sunlight, chlorophyll, carbon dioxide, water, temperature, and enzymes to convert light energy into glucose.

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➔​ There are two groups that organisms are placed in based on how they obtain

nutrients. Which is autotrophs and heterotrophs.


➔​ Autotrophs are organisms that produce their own food while heterotrophs
consume other autotrophs as they cannot produce their own food.
➔​ There are three types of heterotrophic nutrition which are holozoic,
saprophytes and parasitic.
➔​ In holozoic nutrition there three things must take place in the respective order:
ingestion, digestion and absorption. This can be seen in humans, animals and
amoebic.
➔​ Holozoic nutrition involves the intake of solid or liquid food. Saprophytes are
organisms that obtain nutrients by breaking down organic material from dead
or decaying remains urging saprophytic nutrition .
➔​ These are done by decomposers. They digest these nutrients on the outside of
their body (exocytosis) then they absorb the nutrients. Two examples are fungi
and bacteria.
➔​ Parasitic Nutrition is where an organism (known as a parasite) lives on the
body surface or inside the body of another type of organism (known as a host).
The parasite obtains nutrition directly from the body of the host. Some
examples are qleeches,flees,ticks our younger siblings.
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➔​ Photosynthesis is the process by which plants use light energy from the
sunlight to chemical energy to form glucose which is used as food.
➔​
➔​ Carbon Dioxide + Water ----> Glucose + Oxygen with light energy and
chlorophyll
➔​
➔​ 6CO2 + 6H2O ------->
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➔​ The water molecules gets split into hydrogen gas and oxygen by the light
source’s energy. At the light stage oxygen is released
➔​ When at the dark stage,

THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR PHOTOSYNTHESIS


1.​ Sunlight- Chlorophyll traps the sunlight and is a source of energy as we get
light energy from it
2.​ Chlorophyll- This is found in the chloroplast and is used to trap sunlight to get
energy from the sun
3.​ Carbon Dioxide- This is collected from the environment which is released by
humans and animals. This is absorbed by the stomata
4.​ Water- This is absorbed through the root from the soil. The root hairs absorb
the water.
5.​ Temperature- The enzymes cannot work in high temperatures so they will die
6.​ Enzymes- These help to break down the nutrients and is located in the
chloroplasts.
THE MINERALS THAT ARE PRESENT IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS
❏​ Iron: Strength and removal of oxygen
❏​ Nitrogen: Major component of chlorophyll, which captures light
❏​ Magnes

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