The student says ' plants eat sunlight, and animals eat plant'. This statement is not accurate. The plants do not eat sunlight. The plants are known to use the energy from the sunlight to make their own food. The sunlight helps in carrying out the metabolic processes in the plants, which result in the formation of the sugar molecules, these sugar molecules act as the food for others.
Hence, it can be said that the plant make their food using sunlight and the animals eat plants as a food source,