DIGESTION AND
ABSORPTION.
, Types of nutrition
Autotrophic
Only plants are capable of HETEROTROPHIC
combining simple inorganic Heterotrophic nutrition is
substances into complex the mode of nutrition
organic ones capable of
sustaining life. An organism where the organism is
which can carry out this unable to prepare its
method of nutrition is said food and hence, depends
to be autotrophic which upon plants or other
means self-feeding. There are organisms for nutrition.
two types of autotrophic
nutrition, chemosynthesis
and photosynthesis
, DIGESTION
Q)What do you mean by digestion?
Digestion involves splitting of food
molecules by hydrolysis into smaller
molecules that can be absorbed through
the epithelium of the gastro intestinal
tract.