Meanings :
1. Nutrients: The different components of food that are required by our body.
2. Nutrition: Mode of taking in food by an organism and its utilization by the body.
3. Autotrophs: Organisms that prepare their own food. E.g – green plants.
4. Heterotrophs: Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food. Example – animals.
5. Stomata: Tiny pores present on the surface of the leaves.
6. Chlorophyll: The green pigment in leaves that captures the energy of the sunlight.
7. Photosynthesis: The process by which green plants prepare their food from carbon-dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight.
8. Host: The plant from which a parasite derives its nutrition.
9. Parasite: The organism that derives nutrition from the body of other living organisms. Example: cuscuta plant.
10. Insectivorous plants: Insect eating plants. Example -pitcher plant.
11. Saprotrophs: Organisms that derives nutrition from dead and decaying matter. Example- fungi