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no, a consumer consumes food. Generally, a consumer eats other consumers or producers. The only level in the ecosystem that can produce their own food are the producers, mainly plants. All other organisms have to consume food.

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Why can humans not make their own food?

Humans do make their own food. Humans are consumers which gather and prepare their own food. However, humans are not producers, or autotrophs (self-feeding), that produce complex organic compounds (such as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins) from simple substances.


Humans can't make their own food so what are we called?

Humans grow, hunt and process food, we bake and cook, isn't that making our own food ?


What are oranisms that don't make their own food?

Heterotrophic organisms do not make their own food. Example: Humans.


What does not contain chlorophyll that cannot make own food?

Animals and humans do not contain chlorophyll and can not make their own food!


What organism can create their own food but do not produce seeds or spores?

Organisms that can create their own food but do not produce seeds or spores are green algae and cyanobacteria. They use photosynthesis to generate their own food from sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.


What does autotophic mean?

i think you mean autotroph. it means an organism that makes its own food. a plant would be autotrophic because it uses photosynthesis to create sugars to supplement itself. on the otherhand, humans feed off of plants and animals; we don't have the ability to make our own food within ourselves. humans and other animals are heterotrophs.


What organisms create their own food and produce seeds or spores?

grasses


What is an organism that moves on its own and eat food?

humans are an aswer that an organism can move on their own


Why humans being are not producers they made their food in kitchen?

True, but we rely on other species to supply our foods. We cannot create our own food like plants can. That is why we eat plants: to get the nutrients we can't provide for ourselves.


What can plants do that humans and consumers cant?

Make their own food.


An organism that can not create its own food it eats other orgaism as food?

carnivore


Where do plants get nutrients and food from?

plants are producers so they under go the process of photosynthesis. being a producer is when you make and create your own food and energy. we as humans are consumers who consume plants and animals in order to gain our energy