note on nutrition in bacteria please
Bacteria show both autotrophic nutrition and heterotrophic nutrition.Autotrophic nutrition is the nutrition where organism makes its own food. It can be of two types:
- Photoautotrophic nutrition where bacterial cell makes its own food in the presence of light, for example cyanobacteria.
- Chemoautotrophic nutrition where bacterial cell makes its own food by oxidising various inorganic substances present in environment such as nitrates, nitrites, ammonia etc. For example, sulphur bacteria, Nitrobacter, Nitrocystis etc.