Someone making his or her bread from wheat flour cannot be called an autotroph, but a plant making its own food is called so. What is the difference between these two?


Someone making his or her bread from wheat flour cannot be called an autotroph, but a plant making its own food is called so.

The difference between these two is, the plant makes their own food by the process of photosynthesis, whereas making bread from wheat flour isn't called autotroph because flour is the ingredients that we get from plants.
We haven't made wheat, which is the root source of our flour, in fact, we get it from plants.

Primarily we get all the ingredients from the plants and secondary from the animals.

Plants are the only living thing that can make their food by the process of 'photosynthesis' and after that, all the living beings (mammals, reptile, etc.) depends on this primary source.

We get ingredients from animals like milk, egg, silk, wool, etc. which indirectly depend upon a primary source that is plant.

So, from the above-mentioned line, we can understand that majority of the ingredients come from plants and animals.

We also eat some species of fungi which doesn't belong to any plant or animal kingdom.

For example, the most popular fungi that we eat is 'mushroom'.

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Updated on: 30-Mar-2023

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