This document discusses the different modes of nutrition for organisms. There are two main types of nutrition: autotrophic (self-nutrition) and heterotrophic. Autotrophic organisms like plants and some bacteria can synthesize their own food through photosynthesis using carbon dioxide, water, sunlight and chlorophyll. Heterotrophic organisms like animals and some fungi and bacteria obtain nutrients by consuming other organisms. Heterotrophic nutrition can occur through saprophitism (consuming non-living organic matter), parasitism (living off a host organism in a harmful way) or holozoic nutrition (consuming parts or whole organisms and digesting them).