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The mode of nutrition in which organisms make food themselves from simple substances is called:

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Autotrophic nutrition
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Heterotrophic nutrition
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Saprotrophic nutrition
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Holozoic nutrition
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Solution

The correct option is A Autotrophic nutrition
The mode of nutrition in which organisms make food themselves from simple substances is called autotrophic (auto = self; trophos = nourishment) nutrition. Plants can prepare their own food by the process of photosynthesis and hence are autotrophs.

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