During a class of nutrition, the students were taught about the heterotrophic mode of nutrition. Heterotrophic nutrition is the mode of nutrition where the organism is unable to prepare its food and hence, depends upon plants or other organisms for nutrition. Heterotrophic nutrition can be one of three types - holozoic, saprophytic or parasitic.
1. The mode of nutrition in which one organism obtains nutrition from other organisms is known as
a. Symbiosis
b. Autotrophic nutrition
c. Saphrotrophic nutrition
d. Heterotrophic nutrition
2. Heterotrophic nutrition is
a. Oxidation of glucose
b. Breakdown of glucose into energy
c. Utilisation of plants obtained
d. All of the bove
3. Which of the following is an example of holozoic nutrition?
a. Humans
b. Fungi
c. Bacteria
d. Virus
4.The mode of nutrition in fungi is
a. Saprotrophic or parasitic
b. Only parasitic
c. Only saprotrophic
d. None of the above
5. Which of the following is an example of saprotrophic nutrition?
a. Dodder
b. Mushroom
c. Nepenthes
d. Venus fly trap
