NUTRITION

NUTRITION
Nutrition
Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision,
to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of
food) to support life.

IMPORTANCE
Give us vitality and energy for life.
Boost our immune system.
Delays the effects of aging.
Keeps us active and fit in old age.
Help beat tiredness and fatigue.
Ward off serious illnesses like heart disease, certain cancers,
mature-age onset, diabetes, and gallbladder disease.

Plant nutrition is divided into two types Autotrophic plant nutrition and heterotrophic
plant nutrition.
AUTOTROPHIC MODE OF NUTRITION Plants which have chlorophyll, prepare
their own food from CO2 and H2O in the existence of sunlight is called autotrophic mode
of nutrition.
HETEROTROPHIC MODE OF NUTRITION Plants which survive on others host
plant or decaying organic matter for nutrition as they are devoid of chlorophyll is called
heterotrophic mode of nutrition.

AUTOTROPHIC MODE OF NUTRITION IN

PLANTS

TOTROPHIC
PHOTOAUTOTROPHIC
MODE OF NUTRITION IN PLANTS

PHOTOAUTOTROPHIC NUTRITION
AND
CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC NUTRITION
PHOTOAUTOTROPHIC NUTRITION : In
this type, organism prepare their food by their
own in presence of sunlight, carbon dioxide and
water. It is called as photoautotrophic to specify
the participation of sunlight as energy source.
Ex: Cyanobacteria (blue -green bacteria,
prokaryotes), algae and green plants etc.
IRON BACTERIA
A
CHEMOAUTOTRO
PH

SULPHUR BACTERIA
A CHEMOAUTOTROPH

GREEN PLANTS
A PHOTOAUTOTROPH

PURPLE
BACTERIA
A
CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC
PHOTOAUTOTRO
PH

NUTRITION :
In this type of nutrition, the organism can
produce their food by the help of chemical
energy and they do not require for sunlight.
This nutrition is available in dawn also.
The common examples are: nitrifying
bacteria as nitrobactor, nitrosomonas,
sulphur bacteria and iron bacteria.

HETEROTROPHIC
MODE
OF NUTRITION IN
SAPROPHYTICNUTRITION
HETEROTROPHIC
IN PLANTS
PLANTS

The procedure of nutrition by means of which plants

unable to produce food matters, based upon other
living host plants or dead decaying organic matters
for nutrition, is called heterotrophic mode of
nutrition. The plants are called heterotrophic plants.

VENUS

FLYTRAP
AN INSECTIVOROUS
PLANT

SAPROPHYTIC NUTRITION
AND
PARASITIC NUTRITION
PARASITIC NUTRITION : The procedure by which the plant get their
necessary nutrition from other living plants or animals is called parasitic
nutrition.
Plants drawing in nourishment are called parasites and from which nutrients
are extracted in are called hosts. Parasites generally
extract nutrients by haustoria of
their adventitious roots.
CUSCUTA
Ex- Cuscuta reflexa, Rafflesia arnoldi .

SAPROPHYTIC NUTRITION : The nutrition of certain

non-green plants which draw their nourishment from the dead and
decomposed organic substance formed as a result of decay of plants
AGARICUS
and animals is termed saprophytic nutrition .
Ex- Mucor, Agaricus.

SYMBIOTIC NUTRITION
AND
INSECTIVOROUS NUTRITION
SYMBIOTIC NUTRITION : When two organisms exist in close involvement with
each other for their mutual benefit in nutrition, the type of nutrition is called symbiotic
nutrition. Each of the two is called symbiont and the mode of their association is
termed Symbiosis.
Examples : (i) Lichen an association between an alga and fungus.
Alga obtains water, Co2, minerals from the fungus
whereas fungus draws in carbohydrate type of food matters
and oxygen from alga and protects the alga from drying up.
LICHEN

INSECTIVOROUS NUTRITION : Some non-green plants which do not extract

nitrogenous nutrients from soil obtain the nutrients from insects. These plants are called
insectivorous plants. The extraction of nutrition by which these plants obtain in insects
and digest the protein inside the body with the help of certain plants is called
insectivorous nutrition.
Ex : (i) Pitcher plant, (ii) Bladderwort.

BLADDERWORT

NUTRITION IN ANIMALS :
Heterotrophic mode of nutrition Extraction of
nutrition from sunlight is not capable by the
animals. As a result, they cannot prepare
organic food from inorganic matter. They
obtain energy by burning the molecules in their
body which depend on plants and animals. This
mode of nutrition is known as heterotrophic
nutrition.

LIONS PRACTISE
HETEROTROPHIC
MODE OF
NUTRITION.
THEY ARE
HOLOZOIC
ORGANISMS.

HOLOZOIC NUTRITION

HOLOZOIC NUTRITION : It is a method of nutrition that involves the

intake of liquid or solid organic material, digestion, absorption and
assimilation of it to utilize it. By taking complex substances it converts them
into simpler substances.
LIONS ARE
This consists of 5 stages
HOLOZOIC
Ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation and egestion.
Ex Humans, Amoeba.

SAPROZOIC NUTRITION

SAPROZOIC NUTRITION : Some unicellular organism take in liquid

organic substances from their environment and use them as prey for their
body. They are term as saprozoic feeders and the mode of nutrition is called
saprozoic nutrition.

FRUGIVORIC NUTRITION

FRUGIVORIC NUTRITION : The animals which take food as fruits like

parrots, squirrel etc are called Frugivores. And the nutrition is named as
frugivoric nutrition.
PARROTS ARE
FRUGIVORIC

INSECTIVOROUS NUTRITION
An insectivore which depends on insects and other animals
which is a carnivore. Thus, their mode of nutrition is called
insectivorous nutrition.
Examples of insectivores include different species
of Chameleons, nightingales, aardwolves, echidnas, FROG
swallows, anteaters, carp, frogs, lizards, bats, and spiders.

PARASITIC NUTRITION
some animals obtain their prey from a living host. They are called parasites
and the mode of nutrition is called parasitic nutrition. It is of two types.
(i) Ectoparasitic (ii)Endoparasitic
Ectoparasitic
Ectoparasites are those, which obtain their food by living on the body
surface of their host and obtain nourishment by sucking blood.
This mode of nutrition is called Ectoparasitic nutrition.
For example head lice, dog fleas and leeches etc.
Endoparasitic
TAPEWORMS
Endoparasites are those, which stays in the body and obtains directly food
from blood etc. This mode of nutrition is called Endoparasitic nutrition.
Example of endoparasites are hookworms, tape worms and blood fluke

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