The differences between the autotrophic, heterotrophic, and mixotrophic strategies for obtaining energy and nutrition can be found below:
MODE OF NUTRITION:
Nutrition is way by which an organism obtains food for its energy production. The different modes of nutrition employed by organisms is as follows:
AUTOTROPHIC: Autotrophic is the mode of nutrition in which certain organisms like green plants, algae etc. obtain their own food by using sunlight (photosynthesis) or chemicals (chemosynthesis).
HETEROTROPHIC: Heterotrophic is the mode of nutrition in which organisms cannot manufacture their own food hence, depend on other organisms for their energy source. Examples of heterotrophic organisms are animals, fungi etc.
MIXOTROPHIC: Mixotrophicnutrition is one in which an organism uses more than one mode of nutrition e.g a combination of autotrophic and heterotrophicnutrition. For example, Euglena.
The depenadant variable would be the thickness of fur on the rabbits.
Explanation:
A dependant vaiable is the vaiable measured or tested in an experiement. It depends on the hormones given to possibly change the fur thickeness. So the hormone would be an example of an indepenedant variable, making the fur thickess a dependent variable.