The mode of nutrition in human beings is__________.

Autotrophic

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Heterotrophic

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Saprophyte

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Parasite

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Solution

The correct option is B
Heterotrophic

Human beings have a heterotrophic mode of nutrition. Heterotrophic nutrition is nutrition obtained by digesting organic compounds. Animals, fungi, and protoctists are unable to synthesize organic compounds to use as food. They are known as heterotrophs.

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Assertion [A]: Human beings follow heterotrophic mode of Nutrition.

Reason [R]: Human beings follow holozoic mode of Nutrition.

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