What is an example of a species that is heterotrophic and autotrophic?
1 Answer
Oct 17, 2014
An example is Euglena which have adapted to become mixotrophs which as means that they are both heterotrophic and autotrophic.
This means that they are able to get food two different ways, by eating other organisms and making their own nutrients. This adaptation just made the cell an even stronger one by giving it more sources to gain nutrients from and therefore decreasing the chance of them not surviving.
Notice the chloroplast.
