A green plant growing in a compost pit is feeding?

A.

holozoically

B.

parasitically

C.

saprophytically

D.

holophytically

E.

 in none of the above ways

Correct answer is C

Compost pit :a mixture of organic residues such as decomposed vegetation, manure, etc, used as a fertilizer.

holophytic: obtaining food after the manner of a green plant by photosynthetic activity

Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed organic matter.