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Heterotrophs obtain the chemical energy used in metabolism from autotrophs or from other heterotrophs?
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Why are autotrophs sometimes referred to as producers and heterotrophs as consumers?
Autotroph are producers which is life forms that can transfer solar energy into chemical energy. However, heterotrophs are consumers dependent on the chemical energy produced by autotrophs.
What is the relationship between producers and autotrophs?
Autotrophs create their own food (for example plants). These get eaten by primary consumers (herbivores) - which are then eaten by secondary consumers (carnivores). Therefore autotrophs are the original source of food for carnivores.
Explain why both autotrophs and heterotrophs depend on photosynthesis to obtain the energy they need for the life process?
Actually Autotrophs depend on the photosynthesis for the energy need. Autotrophs have the potential to convertsolar energy into chemical energy by utilizing other raw materials in the process. Heterotrophs are dependent on autotrophs for their energy needs, since the product generated by the autotrophs is the substrate for them because they cannot synthesis organic molecules from inorganic materials. So, life is dependent on photosyntheis.
Are chlamydomonas heterotrophs or autotrophs?
Chlamydomona Are Offically Autotrophs. If This Anwer Doesn't Help, Ask You're Teacher Or A Local Scientist.
Is a whale a heterotroph?
Yes, sharks are heterotrophs because they eat other organisms to survive. All animals are heterotrophs (along with fungi and many bacteria). Heterotrophic simply means that these organisms do not produce their own food, but need to consume organic carbons, which come from "autotrophs" - plants, algae, and those bacteria who can create their own food from inorganic elements and the energy from light or from inorganic chemical reactions.
Why are autotrophs sometimes referred to as producers and heterotrophs as consumers?
Autotroph are producers which is life forms that can transfer solar energy into chemical energy. However, heterotrophs are consumers dependent on the chemical energy produced by autotrophs.
Do Heterotrophs convert solar energy into chemical energy.?
no, autotrophs converts solar energy to chemical energy
Do heterotrophs convert solar energy into chemical energy?
no, autotrophs converts solar energy to chemical energy
True or false Can heterotrophs convert solar energy into chemical energy?
False from what i understand heterotrophs are animals and animals get their energy from other animals/ plants. Autotrophs are the ones that convert solar energy in to chemical energy through photosynthesis
What is the relationship between producers and autotrophs?
Autotrophs create their own food (for example plants). These get eaten by primary consumers (herbivores) - which are then eaten by secondary consumers (carnivores). Therefore autotrophs are the original source of food for carnivores.
How do autographs differ from heterotrophs in obtaining energy?
First of all, autographs and heterotrophs are not even closely related. Heterotrophs obtain energy by consuming organic matter of other organisms, either living or deceased. Autotrophs obtain energy by capturing it from sunlight (photosynthesis) or capturing chemical energy (chemosynthesis).
Explain why both autotrophs and heterotrophs depend on photosynthesis to obtain the energy they need for the life process?
Actually Autotrophs depend on the photosynthesis for the energy need. Autotrophs have the potential to convertsolar energy into chemical energy by utilizing other raw materials in the process. Heterotrophs are dependent on autotrophs for their energy needs, since the product generated by the autotrophs is the substrate for them because they cannot synthesis organic molecules from inorganic materials. So, life is dependent on photosyntheis.
What are four main types of Consumers and heterotrophs?
Heterotrophs (from Greek heteros = other or different, trophos = feeder) are organisms that are not able to make their own food. They must ingest or absorb food produced by other organisms. Therefore, the heterotrophs rely on other organisms for theirnutrition. Heterotrophic organisms include animals, fungi, and some single-celled protozoa (e.g., ameba, paramecia) and bacteria. While autotrophs make their own food by converting inorganic nutrients into organic forms, heterotrophs cannot do this. Heterotrophs require most nutrients in an already produced, organic form. They use these nutrients both as a source of energyand as building blocks to form cell and body parts. In a food web the heterotrophs are the consumers. There are many different types of heterotrophs in a food web, depending on what they consume.If they ingest autotrophs (producers), they are known as herbivores (primary consumers). Some heterotrophs eat other heterotrophs. These are the carnivores (secondary or higher level consumers). Predators, which capture live food, and scavengers, which eat already dead food, are two types of carnivores. Omnivores are heterotrophs that eat both autotrophs and other heterotrophs. Decomposers, which break down organic material into an inorganic form usable by plants, are also examples of heterotrophs. One hypothesis about the evolution of life on Earth states that the firstliving cells were heterotrophs. These primitive organisms absorbed or ingested simple organic molecules for use as energy and buildingblocks. When competition for these organic molecules increased, those organisms that could use alternative sources of energy, such as the sun or inorganic chemical reactions, to make their own organic molecules were better able to survive and reproduce. Thus, according to this hypothesis, autotrophs evolved from heterotrophs.
How did primitive heterotrophs produce energy?
chemical fermentation
How do you differentiate autotrophs from heterotrophs?
Heterotrophs came first because they could live off the minerals in the oceans (Heterotrophs are just organisms that take their source of energy from somewhere else - minerals do count). Autotrophs, however, could not have lived first because the ozone layer was not formed, and taking in the sunlight would have been the same as taking in harmful UV radiation that would have killed the autotrophs. The cyanobacteria (which are heterotrophs) were the ones that first helped create the ozone layer.Actually, Cyanobacteria aren't heterotrophic. This WRONG answer led me cramming for our debate about Autotrophs vs. Heterotrophs. If you want to know about which came first, either search about primordial theory by A.I Oparin or go to http://leiwenwu.tripod.com/(:my yahoomail: lord_reverie@yahoo.com.ph
How is the ultimate source of energy for heterotrophs the sun even though they cannot make their own food?
The sun is the ultimate source of energy for the vast majority of organisms. Producers convert the energy from sunlight into chemical energy stored in glucose molecules. Glucose molecules are combined to make starch for energy storage. Primary consumers (heterotrophs) feed on producers (autotrophs), and secondary consumers feed on primary consumers, and so on.
Are cows autotrophs or hetrotrophs?
Cattle are heterotrophs, they cannot synthesize their own food and rely on other organic matter for nutrition. While autotrophs are able to synthesize its own food from inorganic substances, using light or chemical energy.
