Read the following and answer any three questions from $(i)$ to (iv). Heterotrophic nutrition is a mode of nutrition in which organisms obtain readymade organic food from outside sources. The organisms that depend upon outside sources for obtaining organic nutrients are called heterotrophs. Heterotrophic nutrition is of three types: saprophytic, parasitic, and holozoic nutrition.
$(i)$ In which group of organisms is food material broken down outside the body and then absorbed?
(ii) What are heterotrophs?
(iii) $(A)$ Give an example of a saprotroph. $(B)$ Write the three types of heterotrophic nutrition.
(iv) What does heterotrophic nutrition involve?

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(N/A) $(i)$ Saprophytic organisms like yeast, mushrooms, and bread mould.
(ii) Heterotrophs are organisms that cannot synthesize their own food and depend on other organisms for organic nutrients.
(iii) $(A)$ Mushroom. $(B)$ Saprophytic, parasitic, and holozoic nutrition.
(iv) Heterotrophic nutrition involves the intake of complex organic food from external sources, its breakdown, and absorption for energy and growth.

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