Heterotrophic Nutrition

Biology
Concept: Heterotrophic Nutrition

The mode of nutrition in which organisms depend on either auto trophs or other heterotrophs, for food, is called heterotropic nutrition.

Example:- Humans, Tigers (all animals).

There are several steps by which heterotropic organism takes nutrition and derives energy:

  1. Ingestion
  2. Digestion
  3. Absorption
  4. Assimilation
  5. Egestion

The following video will illustrate how some organisms take in food to derive energy from it.

Amoeba


Vorticella


Paramecium


Hydra


Amphibians

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