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Some bacteria are heterotrophs and cannot make their own food. Instead, Heterotrophic bacteria must consume other organisms or the food that other organisms make. Heterotrophic bacteria may consume a variety of foods--from milk and meat, which you might also eat, to the decaying leaves on a forest floor
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Is salmonella an autotroph or a heterotroph?
I don't think so, since bacteria is a heterotroph, and salmonella is a type of bacteria.
How do bacteria get energy?
Autotroph & Heterotroph
Is bacteria autotroph or heterotroph?
Heterotrophic
Is a bison a autotroph or a hetertroph?
"Auto" means "self". So self food producers are called autotrophs. Autotrophs include plants and some bacteria. So, a bison, not being a plant or bacteria, is a heterotroph because it cannot produce its own food.
Is a human autotroph or a heterotroph?
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.
Is staphylococcus aureus heterotrophic or autotrophic?
Since Salmonella is a type of bacteria, and bacteria are heterotrophs, salmonella is probably also a heterotroph.
Is a foraminifer autotroph or heterotroph?
It is a heterotroph because it catches its food.
Is python a heterotroph or autotroph?
Heterotroph because it doesn't make food
Is bacterium a heterotroph?
Some bacteria are heterotrophs, others are autotrophs.
Is the streptococcus virus autotrouph or heterotroph?
Streptococcus is a bacteria...and heterotrophic.
What is the name for a one celled or many celled organism that can either make or absorb food?
Autotrphs can make there own food by photosynthesis or by absorbing it Bacteria get food from both ways, they absorb their food from the ground, Protists can do this also, along with plants A heterotroph cannot make their own food, an example is a human
Bacteria that cannot synthesize their own food called?
Heterotrophic bacteria rely on organic compounds produced by other organisms as a food source, as they are unable to produce their own through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. These bacteria obtain nutrients by consuming or decomposing organic matter from their environment.
