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Lesson: Chapter 8 — Characteristics of Living Organisms

8.2. Nutrition 2 of 6

Question 2

On what basis is autotrophic nutrition divided into photoautotrophic and chemoautotrophic?

The right answer is the one marked above.

The energy used to produce the food. Sunlight makes it photoautotrophic; a chemical reaction makes it chemoautotrophic.

In both cases the food produced is organic material, so the material the food is made from is no basis for a division. Where the food is stored, and the size of the organism, are irrelevant here.

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