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Most plants we know are autotrophic. They make their own food and contain chlorophyll. There are many autotrophic plants that we see everyday, including the sunflower pictured below.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUt__nYl7sY

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Most plants fall into the autotrophic category, but some fall into the heterotrophic category like the Snow Plant.

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All animals are heterotrophic, like fungi, they can not make their own food.

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The purple sulfur bacteria are a group of Proteobacteria capable of photosynthesis, collectively referred to as purple bacteria.

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Archaebacteria can be both heterotrophic and autotrophic. They can have chlorophyll and chemosynthesis.

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Tillandsia recurvata, commonly known as small ballmoss or ball moss, is a flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae that grows upon larger host plants.

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Protists can be unicellular and multicelluar, because of this, they are classified into 3 groups: animal-like protists, fungi-like protists, and plant-like protists.

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Eubacteria both have examples of heterotrophic and autotrophic organisms.

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Fungi is heterotrophic, they have no chlorophyll so they depend on other organisms for nutrients.

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Indian Pipe is a parasitic plant that generally grows near pine. It lacks chlorophyll making it completely white.

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They are known as snow plants because they can be seen right after the snow melts in the mountains. Snow plants do not have chlorophyll. They obtain nutrition from fungi located underneath the soil.

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noun, Biology.
1.an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

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Heterotrophic nutrition is nutrition obtained by digesting organic compounds. Animals, fungi, and protoctists are unable to synthesize organic compounds to use as food. They are known as heterotrophs.

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noun, Biology.

1. any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis orchemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certainbacteria and protists.

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Plants, algae and bacteria are just some examples of autotrophs are the Resurrection Fern,  Green Algae, and cyanobacteria.

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Autotrophic & Heterotrophic