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What are the organisms that must get their energy from food sources?
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∙ 13y ago
heterotrophs
Tiara Lebsack
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∙ 13y agoAll organisms must consume some form of food. Heterotrophic organisms consume organic matter. While Autotrophic organisms can use an inorganic energy source for sustenance.
Virtually all 'things' that must respire to live, need a form of sustenance besides oxygen to live. Oxygen does need fuel.
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∙ 12y agoA heterotroph. Which is every living thing except plants, algae, and some bacteria.
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∙ 13y agoCarnivores are the class of organism which consume other organisms to obtain needed nutrients for living.
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∙ 11y agoConsumers are organisms that get energy by consuming food.
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∙ 12y agoHeteratrophs
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What are organisms that must eat food for energy called?
Heterotrophic.
Why organisms must have food?
Because food is a source of energy and it also supplies cells with oxygen
What do organisms need in order to stay alive?
adapt to their environment and live off their resources.
What are heterotrphs?
Heterotrophs are organisms that cannot make their own food so they must depend on other organisms for nutrients.
Identify characteristics that organisms must have to carry on the processes of life?
Organisms must have cells , must reproduce, respond to stimulus and reproduce to carry on the processes of life. They also ought to have energy to perform the various processes.
Are people heterotroph?
People are heterotrophic organisms. They are unable to manufacture their own food and must obtain their nutrients and energy source from external sources.
What do you call organisms that must obtain energy from food?
They are called consumers.
What are organisms that must eat food for energy called?
Heterotrophic.
Why organisms must have food?
Because food is a source of energy and it also supplies cells with oxygen
Can not make their own food must obtain energy from other sources?
consumers
Organisms that must eat food for energy are .?
You are describing a consumer. They do not make their own food like plants do.
Organisms that get their food and energy from other organisms?
Any animal that's not a producer. A producer produces its own food so it doesn't get energy from an organism. An example of an animal could be a hawk. When it eats a rat the energy from the rat goes to the hawk.
What organism uses sunlight or eats food to make energy?
Organisms that use sunlight are photosynthetic (like plants, algae, etc.) and organisms that must eat food are consumers (us, etc.).
Are animals ever at the beginning of a food chain?
No. A food chain must begin with a producer, which uses photo- or chemosynthesis to produce energy. Animals must consume other organisms to obtain energy and so cannot be producers.
An organism that must take in food is an?
Heterotroph, they go omnomnom on things. From single celled organisms to multicellular organisms, this term covers all biota that consume other biota for sustenance. Autotrophs create their food via chemosynthesis or photosynthesis.
Organisms that capture light energy from the sun and transform it into food are called?
An autotroph is an organism that is able to produce its own food. In contrast, a heterotroph must consume other organisms for energy.
What do organisms need in order to stay alive?
adapt to their environment and live off their resources.
