types of heterotrophic nutrition

• what are the three types of hetertrophic nutrition

  holozoic , saprotrophic and parasitic
• what is meant by holozoic nutrition


  this is when organisms ingest food digest it and egest and indigestible remains
• what are carnivores


  meat eaters
• what are herbivores


  plant eaters
• what are omnivores


  eat both plants and animals
• What are detritivores?


  decomposers
• list eh processes in holozoic nutrition


  ingestion , digestion , absorption into bloodstream , assimilation and egestion
• What is saprotrophic nutrition?


  extracellular digestion
• what are saprotrophs


  Heterotrophs that obtain organic nutrients from dead organic matter by external digestion
• what is meant by a hetertrophs

  consumers
• what are examples of saprotrophs


  bacteria and fungi
• what is an example of extracellular digestion


  enzymes
• What are decomposers?


  microscopic saprotrophs that decay litter and recycle nutrients such s nitrogen
• what are parasites


  Protists that live in or inside other organisms
• what are the organism that parasites inhabit know as


  a host
• what does a parasite do to survive


  it will obtain nourishment at the expense of the host , causing harm and sometimes death to the host
• give an example of a parasite


  tape worm , fungus potato blight and head louse
• What is a endoparasite?


  A parasite that lives inside a host.
• what is a ectoparasite


  lives on the surface of the host
• what parasite will use a bacteria as a host

  bacteriophage