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The most general answer is a consumer, which is then divided into carnivores (which eat other animals), herbivores (which eat plants) and detrivores (which eat non-living organic material).

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What is an organism called that lives in or on another organism for the purpose of obtaining food?

A parasite is an organisms that lives in or on another organism to obtain food directly.


What is call organisms that eats another organisms?

An organism that eats another organism is called a consumer.


What is it called when an organisms eats another organism?

If the organism is eating another its a carnivore.


What is it called when a virus uses another organism for its own benefit?

Organisms who use another organism to flourish are called parasites.


What must eat other organisms for food?

An organism that eats other organisms for energy are known as heterotrophs.


What are organisms that eats other animals?

Animals that eat other organisms are called carnivores, or sometimes secondary consumers.


What organism feed on each other?

Organisms that feed on each other are called parasites. There is the host (the one that is getting used) and the parasite (the one who sucks the blood). Organisms like ticks are parasites, sucking on human or dog blood. (You have probably seen them on your arms/legs)


What is the relationship between organisms where one organism benefits and the other organism is not affected?

It is called Commensalism- a relationship in which one organism benefits from another organism but does not harm it


Eats other organism for food?

Any organism that eats another organism for food is called a heterotrophic animal. These organisms are also known as consumers.


What is the relationship between organisms called where one organisms live on near or inside another organism?

in relation to cells it is endosymbiosis


What is the relationship between organisms where one organism benefits and the other is not affected?

It is called Commensalism- a relationship in which one organism benefits from another organism but does not harm it


What is any organism that eat another organism call?

An organism that eats another organism is called a consumer.