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Question
State one difference in nutrition: Holozoic and Saprozoic nutrition
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Solution
Holozoic nutrition is a nutrition in which animals survive by consuming other organisms whereas saprozoic nutrition is the nutrition in which the animals absorbs soluble organic nutrients from dead and decaying organic matter.
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