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Question
The general mode of nutrition in Kingdom Animalia, characterized by the ingestion of food, is biologically termed:
Explanation
According to the NCERT textbook, animals are strict heterotrophs that must consume organic matter. Their specific mode of nutrition involves directly taking in solid or liquid food particles into an internal digestive cavity where enzymes break it down. This specific process of ingestion-based nutrition is biologically termed 'holozoic' nutrition, distinct from the absorptive nutrition seen in fungi.
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