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Are vegetarians the only heterotrophs that get all their energy from plants?
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∙ 9y ago
No, vegetarians, or better described, as herbivores in this example, are not the only heterotrophs that get all their energy from plants. All living organisms, including carnivores, also derive energy from plants by eating the herbivores.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoYes
Autotrophs are organisms that can produce their own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot manufacture its own food and instead obtains its food and energy by taking in organic substances, usually plant or animal matter. All animals, protozoans, fungi, and most bacteria are heterotrophs.
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∙ 11y agoAll heterotrophs eat food to get energy. They can't make food like autotrophs.
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∙ 11y agoYes
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Is cat a producer?
no
What is one example of heterotrophs?
Snakes and elephants are both examples of heterotrophs since they consume other organisms for food instead of making their own. It doesn't matter that the former is a carnivore and the latter is an herbivore.
Are fungi are prokaryotic heterotrophs?
Yes, all fungi are heterotrophs. Counter to plants, algae and some bacteria, fungi are unable to photosynthetize (organisms that can do this are called autotrophs), fungi can only descompose organic matter, but they can't fix carbon from the atmosfere -what photosynthetic organisms do.
Would you classify human beings as autotrophs or heterotrophs?
Heterotroph, autotrophs can create their own food (plants and some bacteria). Heterotrophs consume other organisms to aquire their energy and much energy is lost between each level.
Why does only this much energy transfer to the next level?
Only this much energy is transferred to each level because plants take up 90% of the sun's energy because they are obviously the most populated, and primary consumers such as cows aren't as populated as plants so they only get 10% of the remaining energy and so on as for examples of humans, and then lions. Lions 0.1% energy Humans 1% energy Cows 10% energy Plants 100% energy Hope this helped! :)
In Africa are chimpanzees vegetarians?
yes chimpanzees in Africa are vegetarians they only eat plants and vegetables.
Heterotrophs that eat both plants and animals are referred to as what?
Heterotrophs that eat both plant and animals are referred to as omnivores. Animals that only eat plants and herbivores and those who only eat meat are carnivores.
What kind of organism obtains energy directly from the sun?
Heterotrophs can eat autotrophs or other heterotrophs.
Why is it logical to believe that the earliest form of life are the heterotrophs?
It's not. Autotrophs (plants), were the first organisms on Earth. They photsynthesize their food, thus creating an ample food supply for a first degree heterotroph. According to the food-energy pyramid, of the 100% energy contained in the autotrophs, only 10% is passed on to the first degree heterotrophs. Of that, only 10% is passed on, meaning that of the original sum, only 1% of energy is passed on to the second-degree heterotrophs. Therefore, there must be enough autotrophs to support any population of heterotrophs. It's illogical then to reason that heterotrophs were the first organisms. They would have had no food. Any type of food for a heterotrophs is either an autotroph or a lower degree heterotroph that eats an autotroph.
What is the answer for eats other heterotrophs?
Heterotrophs are living things that have to eat other living things to survive. That would be an animal, since plants make their own food.Heterotrophs that eat other heterotrophs would be animals that eat other animals. Heterotrophs that eat only other heterotrophs would be a carnivore. If the heterotroph eats both heterotrophs (animals) and autotrophs (plants), that would describe an omnivore.
Do plants provide food for every type of heterotrophs?
The origin of all energy for life on earth is the sun. Only plants and other photosynthesizers (i.e.alge) can use the sun's energy to support their own life. All other life on Earth (heterotrophs) have to get their energy either from eating organisms that directly get their energy from the sun (plants), or by eating organisms that ate organisms that got their energy from the sun.
What are the similarities between autotophs and heterotrophs?
An autotroph creates its own food/energy source, typically through photosynthesis. Heterotrophs rely upon outside sources for food/energy. The lowest level of heterotrophs are herbivores, or plant (aka autotrophs) eaters. Progressing up the food chain there are also carnivores (meat - aka other heterotrophs - eaters) and omnivores (will eat both plants and animals). The relationship from the heterotrophs side is fairly simple and easy to see - autotrophs are a food/energy source. The flipside, is that the heterotrophs, through bodily waste and other decaying matter, leave the minerals and nutrients that the autotrophs require to complete the photosynthetic process. In essence, the relationship is cyclical.
Where does cellular respiration occur in heterotrophs and and photosynthesis in autotrophs?
heterotrophs eat other organisms because they can not make their own food. so they obtain their energy by braking down their food to a simpler state through the process of respiration so yes heterotrophs preform respiration
Which kingdom includes only multicellular hetertrophs?
The kingdom Animalia includes only multicellular heterotrophs.
What is a giraffe a autotroph or heterotroph?
Goats eat plants, hence they are classified as heterotrophs. Only an organism that creates its own food and does not eat any other organism would be classified as an autotroph.
In which ways are fungi different from plants?
Some Fungi can be multicellular and others can be unicellular. Their cell walls are chitin and fungi are also heterotrophs. Plants are only multicellular. Their cell walls are of cellulose and plants are autotrophs.
Is cat a producer?
no
