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do both plants and animals make atp
Green plants use a process called photosynthesis to make food from sunlight. Only green plants can make their own food. Other plants (like mushrooms) and animals do not make their own food, but get nutrition from green plants (or dead green plants). Animals do not make food from sunlight. If they could, they would not need to eat.
Protista are neither plants nor animals. They have characteristics of both plants and animals. They make their own food just like plants but move around like animals.
Plants make oxygen and energy(glucose) which we consume when we eat plants or animals that ate plants.
Plants generally have several sources of food they create sugars during the day from the sun, photosynthesis, other nutrients are taken in via the root system or even through pored in the leaves. Certain plants in areas of poor soil will trap insects or small animals for their nutrients, taking the nutrients from the corpses there are even plants that encourage animals to defecate in a bowl for the nutrients. Nutrients in the soil come from decaying plants and animals and animals waste these are broken down by insects and bacteria in to soil or loam.