{"id":48658,"date":"2025-01-17T20:52:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48658"},"modified":"2025-01-17T20:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:52:42","slug":"biology-autotroph-vs-heterotroph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-autotroph-vs-heterotroph\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology: autotroph vs heterotroph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring biology, definitions are important. The tutor distinguishes between autotroph and heterotroph.<\/h2>\n<p>\nAn autotroph produces its own chemical energy (in the most familiar case, by photosynthesis), while a heterotroph gets its chemical energy from another organism, dead or alive.<\/p>\n<p>\nPlants are autotrophs, while animals are heterotrophs.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p>\nRitter, B., Coombs, R.F., Drysdale, Dr. R. B., Gardner, Dr. G. A., Lunn, D. T. (1996). <em>Biology<\/em> (British Columbia edition). Nelson Canada.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, definitions are important. The tutor distinguishes between autotroph and heterotroph. An autotroph produces its own chemical energy (in the most familiar case, by photosynthesis), while a heterotroph gets its chemical energy from another organism, dead or alive. Plants &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-autotroph-vs-heterotroph\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology: autotroph vs heterotroph<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48658"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48662,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48658\/revisions\/48662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}