heterotroph vs being

heterotroph and being both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
heterotroph	Yes	No	No	No
being	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, being is a hypernym of heterotroph; that is, being is a word with a broader meaning than heterotroph:

heterotroph: an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
being: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

Other hypernyms of heterotroph include organism.

heterotroph (noun)	being (noun)
an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition	a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
	the state or fact of existing