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A heterotroph is an organism that must consume organic material for energy. Heterotrophs obtain carbon and nitrogen from the foods they consume. All living things contain some amount of protein, and proteins contain the nitrogen that heterotrophs need. Carbon is found in proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, so whatever a heterotroph eats, it will get lots of carbon.
Heterotrophs get nitrogen and carbon from their food. Primary consumers get them by eating plants. Whereas secondary consumers get them from eating primary consumers.
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∙ 9y agoA heterotroph is an organism that must consume organic material for energy. Heterotrophs obtain carbon and nitrogen from the foods they consume. All living things contain some amount of protein, and proteins contain the nitrogen that heterotrophs need. Carbon is found in proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, so whatever a heterotroph eats, it will get lots of carbon.
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∙ 9y agoHeterotrophs get nitrogen and carbon from their food. Primary consumers get them by eating plants. Whereas secondary consumers get them from eating primary consumers.
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What food molecule is used by heterotrophs to make energy?
Heterotrophs are unable to make their food, but consume reduced carbon compounds. The heterotrophs are then able to obtain energy from the food for reproduction and growth.
Do heterotrophic cells have chloroplasts?
No they do not.Photoautotrophic plants have chloroplasts.
How do heterotrophs get their nitrogen?
Heterotrophs get nitrogen from the food they consume in autotrophs like plants to get nitrate salts contained in the plants.
How do autotrophs obtain energy and how do heterotrophs obtain energy?
Heterotrophs obtain energy from foods they consume, and Autotrophs obtain energy by the sun light
How do autotrophs and heterotrophs differ in way they obtain energy?
Heterotrophs obtain energy from foods they consume, and Autotrophs obtain energy by the sun light
How do heterotrophs and autotrophs differ in the way they obtain energy?
Heterotrophs obtain energy from foods they consume, and Autotrophs obtain energy by the sun light
Which gas is obtain by fractional distillation for industrial use?
Nitrogen and/or carbon monoxide
What does autotroph and heterotrophs have to do with photosynthesis?
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot fix carbon and uses organic carbon for growth. Heterotrophs function as consumers in food chains: they obtain organic carbon by eating other heterotrophs or autotrophs ie they don't photosynthesize. This contrasts with autotrophs, such as plants and algae, which can use energy from sunlight (photosynthesis ). Ninety-five percent or more of all types of living organisms are heterotrophic.
Heterotrophs obtain the chemical energy used in metabolism from autotrophs or from other heterotrophs?
false or no
How do heterotrophs and heterotrophs. differ?
Autotrophs make their own food through photosynthesis. Heterotrophs obtain nourishment by eating other organisms.
What is the role of autotrophs and heterotrophs in the cycling of nitrogen through the environment?
Autotrophs get the nitrogen from the soil by the nitrogen fixing bacteria that convert nitrogen to nitrate salts used up by plants while heterotrophs gets them when they consume the autotrophs, making them have some of the nitrates in palnts. Autotrophs and heterotrophs then die and are decomposed by bacteria to recycle the nitrogen in air . Some of those bacteria converts the nitrates into form of nitrogen recycling them into the atmosphere.
What is the difference between photosynthesis and eating and autotrophs and heterotrophs?
photosynthesis is related to plants autotrophs and heterotrophs relates to the early life like the unicellular bacteria that lived at the bottom of the ocean A heterotroph is an organism that cannot fix carbon and uses organic carbon for growth. Heterotrophs function as consumers in food chains: they obtain organic carbon by eating other heterotrophs or autotrophs. This contrasts with autotrophs, such as plants and algae, which can use energy from sunlight (photosynthesis ). Ninety-five percent or more of all types of living organisms are heterotrophic.
