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What is the difference between autotroph and photoautotroph

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Heterotroph and Autotroph

Step-by-step explanation:

There is no such thing as a "phototroph" although I'm pretty sure you mean Heterotropth! A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. Meanwhile an autotroph is an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.. or they can produce their own food by photosynthesis (This is mostly the Plantae kingdom we're talking about!)

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