Question

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All non-green plants and animals are ____________

Answer 1

The non-green plants and animals do not possess a pigment that is termed as chlorophyll which is essential for the photosynthesis. so, these organisms do not make their own food and these are dependent on the others.

Complete answer:
In order to solve this question, we should have knowledge about nutrition and photosynthesis.
Nutrition: It is referred to as a process of taking in and using the food for the growth, metabolism, and repair of an organism.

Photosynthesis: It is referred to as a process in which organisms such as green plants and some other organisms like prokaryotic bacteria convert light energy into chemical energy.

Light energy is required to convert water, carbon dioxide, and inorganic compounds into oxygen and energy rich organic compounds.

So, on the dependent of organisms which can and cannot perform and involve in photosynthesis, nutrition in organism can be categorised into following types:
1)Autotrophic Nutrition includes (Plants, algae, cyanobacteria)
2)Heterotrophic Nutrition includes Saprophytes (mushroom) Parasitic (leeches) Holozoic (humans)

Heterotrophic Nutrition: It is the kind of nutrition in which organisms are not able to generate their own food and depend upon others (autotrophs) for the nutrition.
These types of organisms are referred to as Heterotrophs.
For example: Non-green plants, mushrooms, ticks and animals also the human beings.
So, all non-green plants and animals are termed as heterotrophs.

Note: Autotrophic Nutrition is referred to as a type of nutrition in which organisms can prepare and synthesise their own food by the process of photosynthesis. These include all the plants.