Question

The organism that prepare their own food:

• A. heterotrophs
• B. Autotrophs
• C. Saprophytes
• D. parasites

Answer 1

The correct option is B

Autotrophs

The correct option is B:

Explanation of the correct option:

1. Autotrophs are organisms that prepare their own food by trapping light energy and converting them into food.
2. Autotrophs include algae, plants, and some bacteria.
3. For example; plants prepare food by trapping the light from sunlight.

Explanation of incorrect option:

Option(A)

1. Heterotrophs are organism that is not able to produce their own food and depends on other sources for nutrition.
2. For example; human depends on plants or animal flesh for nutrition.

Option(C)

1. Saprophytes are microorganism that lives or survives on dead and decaying organic matter.
2. Fungi, bacteria are the example of saprophytes.

Option(D)

1. Parasites are a kind of microorganism that live in a host and take nutrition from it.
2. These types of microorganisms are harmful to the host.