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  • Autotrophs: Understanding Self-Feeding Organisms
    Organisms that can make their own food are called autotrophs.

    Here's why:

    * Auto means "self"

    * Troph means "nourishment"

    So, autotrophs literally mean "self-nourishing".

    The most common type of autotrophs are photoautotrophs, which use sunlight to make food through photosynthesis. Plants are a great example of photoautotrophs.

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