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- ‘Auto’ means ‘self’ and ‘troph’ means ‘nutrition’.
- Therefore, the organisms which make their own food from simple inorganic sources like Carbon Dioxide and Water are known as autotrophs.
- The end product is an organic product like Glucose .
- All Green Plants are Autotrophs. Some Bacteria are also autotrophic.
- Green Plants derive their nutrition using the process of Photosynthesis .
