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Virtually all plants are autotrophic. But there are no autotrophic animals or fungi. What can you infer about autotrophic organisms?

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All the plants are autotrophic because they can prepare their own food using photosynthesis.

Step-by-step explanation:

Animals & fungi are not autotrophic because they can not perform photosynthesis. In order to perform photosynthesis they should contain photosynthetic pigment i.e. chlorophyll. These are absent in animals & fungi. Apart from this animals & fungi have reserve food materials in the form of glycogen on the other hand plants stores the food in the form of starch. Animals & fungi lacks chloroplast.

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