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What is the organism that cannot make its own food and must feed on other organisms for energy and nutrients?
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∙ 9y ago
Organisms that can make their own food (plants) are called producers. Organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms are called consumers.
The consumers are complicated because there are those that eat the plants (like cows) called herbivores and those that eat herbivores - meat - (like lions) called carnivores, but there are also some that eat meat and plants (like humans and pigs) called omnivores.
This leads to the concept of a food chain with the numerous plants at the base and the top predators which are very few in number at the top.
One must also not forget the consumer animals that break down dead plants and animals, releasing the nutrients back into the environment so that plants can use them again - the bacteria and fungi.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 9y agoAn organism that cannot make its own food but instead absorbs food from decaying organisms is a saprophyte. Fungus is an example of a saprophyte.
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∙ 10y agoOrganisms that eat other dead organisms are called scavengers.
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∙ 13y agoThey are called "consumers".
Another name would be "heterotrophs".
Plants are autotrophs and producers.
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∙ 14y agoAlex Milner and Chloe
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What organism cant make its own foodand gets its energy by eating other organisms?
Heterotrophs are organisms that cannot make its own food and gets energy by eating other organisms.
What are the omnivore carnivore and herbivore's group are called?
Organisms that cannot synthesize their own food obtain it directly or indirectly from producers and are called heterotrophs ("other-feeders") or consumers-they acquire their energy and many of their nutrients prepackaged in the molecules that compose the bodies of other organisms.
What is an organism that must eat others?
An organism that eats other organisms is called a consumer.
How are the words nutrient and nutrition related?
Nutrients are substances that are required for the nourishment of organism while nutrition is the entire process by which organisms obtain energy and nutrients from food.
What is an individual form of life that uses energy to carry out the activities of life called?
I think it's an organism
How do symbiosis help organism survive?
Symbiosis help organisms survive by giving an organism's nutrients and energy to another organism.
What is a the decomposers?
a decommposer is an organism that breaks down other dead organisms and makes it into energy and nutrients.
What organism cant make its own foodand gets its energy by eating other organisms?
Heterotrophs are organisms that cannot make its own food and gets energy by eating other organisms.
What supplies organisms with the food energy and other resources needed to live?
All Organism need Food to promote growth and for energy.
What is the Importance of food for living organism?
Food provides nutrients and energy we need.
An animal is a answer as it cannot make its own food. Animals eat plants?
an organism that gets energy from eating other organisms. an organisms that uses sunlight to make its own food. an organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, non-living
What organism produces their own food and supply the other organisms in a ecosystem with energy and nutrients?
Bacteria produces its own food
What happened with the stored energy as it transfer from one organisms with another?
Energy in organisms primarily comes from carbohydrates, some may also be contributed from lipids and proteins. When an organism is consumed the different nutrients are absobed into the body which are then used in respiration to release the energy
How do protista get their nutrients?
Some get nutrients and by eating other organisms get energy from the sun, and nutrients from the water around them energy.
How energy transfer from organism to another?
Energy transfers from one organism to another by organisms eating other organisms in a food chain or web.
What are the omnivore carnivore and herbivore's group are called?
Organisms that cannot synthesize their own food obtain it directly or indirectly from producers and are called heterotrophs ("other-feeders") or consumers-they acquire their energy and many of their nutrients prepackaged in the molecules that compose the bodies of other organisms.
What are organisms that get energy by other organism?
producers .
