Why do we need food?

To provide energy
To grow
To repair worn-out or damaged
tissues
To maintain general health

 To state the types of nutrition

To explain autotrophic nutrition
To explain heterotrophic nutrition
To classify organisms according to
the types of nutrition

NUTRITION

Types

Humans and
Animals

Diet

Plants

Technology
Production

Autotroph

Heterotroph

Holozoic

Balanced

Hydroponics and
Aeroponics

In balance

Processing

Selective breeding

Saprophytism

Tissue culture
Cooking

Parasitism

Photosynthesis

Absorption
and
assimilation

Digestion

Genetic
engineering

Defaecation
Soil
Management

Chemosynthesis

Freezing

Canning

Biological control
Ruminant

Rodents

Humans

Macronutrient

Pasteurization

Nutrient
requirement

Micronutrient

Photosynthesis
Mechanism

Temperature

Factors

Light
intensity

Concentration of
Carbon Dioxide

Fermentation
Drying

Nutrition : a process by which

organisms obtain food or nutrients

AUTOTROPHIC NUTRITION
A type of nutrition in which organisms
synthesise the organic compounds
(food) they require from inorganic
substances.
The organisms autotrophs (auto = self,
troph = nutrition)

The energy required for synthesis of

food sunlight (photosynthesis) @
chemical substances (chemosynthesis)

Photosynthesis
All green plant
Synthesising organic
compounds from CO2 & H2O in
the presence of sunlight.

Chemosynthesis
Synthesising organic compounds
by using energy from the oxidation
of inorganic substances such as
CO2, hydrogen sulphide, nitrogen or
ammonia.
Chemoautotroph : sulphur bacteria,
Nitrosomonas sp., Nitrobacter sp.

HETEROTROPHIC NUTRITION
A type of nutrition in which
organisms have to depend an
autotrophs or other organisms
as a source of energy as they
cannot synthesise their own
food
The organisms heterotrophs
3 types : holozoic,
saprophytism, parasitism

HOLOZOIC NUTRITION
Feeding by ingesting complex
organic matter digested
absorbed
Animals & insectivorous plants

SAPROPHYTISM
NUTRITION
Feeding by absorbing their required
nutrients from dead organic matter
or the organic excretory waste of
organisms
Called saprophytes (bacteria, fungi
mushrooms, yeasts & Mucor sp.)

PARASITISM
NUTRITION
Feeding by absorbing their nutrients from
living organisms

Lives on or in the body of a living organism

(host) & obtains its nutrients from the host
parasites
Fleas, lice & tapeworm
Endoparasites & ectoparasites

EXERCISE 6.1
1. Give the difference between
autotrophs and the heterotrophs.
2. List three types of heterotrophic
nutrition.