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Plants are called ________ because they fix carbon dioxide.

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Plants are called autotrophs because they fix carbon dioxide.
Autotrophic nutrition is a process in which the organism produces its food from simple inorganic materials such as water, carbon dioxide and mineral salts in the presence of sunlight.

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