consumer
Consumers. Consumers can't make their own food. Producers can.
Autotrophs can make their own food.
a heterotroph
an organism that can make its own food is called an autotroph, usually it is the 'producer' in a food chain.
An organism that can make its own food is an Autotroph.
autotroph
Autotroph.
An organism that cannot make its own food is called a consumer. Organisms that make their own food are called producers. Consumers must create energy from eating producers or other consumers.
a Heterotroph is the name for an organism that cannot make its own food. An Autotroph is an organism that is able to synethsize its own food. Both heterotrophs and autotrophs can be single-celled or multi-cellular organisms.
Ones that are photosynthetic like plants are can make their own food.
Autotroph.
secondary consumers