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Hi, wanted to know if Venus flytrap and the pitcher plants are autotrophs or heterotrophs? Because they can prepare there own food

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You might call a venus flytrap a 'mixotroph'. Autotrophs make their own food (like most plants); heterotrophs get food from elsewhere (like animals, which eat other organisms), and mixotrophs can do both.

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