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The organisms that use fermentation, such as yeast, gain energy by converting carbohydrates to carbon dioxides and alcohols. Organisms that use fermentation do not require sunlight.
A seahorse gains energy by eating other live organisms, meaning it is a carnivore. A seahorse is not a decomposer because decomposers gain energy from breaking down dead organisms.
They are a set of organisms wherein one organism benefits from the other while the other organism experiences no gain or loss.
Heterotroph: eats bacteria from decaying plants
Fungi obtain energy by absorbing organic matter from their environment. They secrete enzymes that break down complex organic compounds into simpler molecules, which they can then absorb and use for energy. Fungi can obtain their nutrients from decaying organic matter, living organisms, or through mutualistic relationships with other organisms.
It's because animals are heterotrophs. The consume other organisms to gain energy by eating, drinking etc. Plants are autotrophs, which mean they produce and release energy by themselves because they can't consume other organisms. With the exception of carnivorous plants
cheetahs would be around about 3rd order consumers, they consume other organisms, using this energy. when the cheetah dies, it decomposes and the energy is returned to the environment, thus maintaining energy gain and loss in an ecosystem.
They all take in energy. All diagrammed as a food chain.
Animals are organisms that eat other animals or plants to gain energy.
The platypus gains energy by eating other organisms, meaning it is a carnivore. A platypus is not a decomposer because decomposers gain energy by decomposing dead organisms.
Kingdom Animalia are chemoheterotroph in terms of their mode of nutrition. They consume organic compounds, carbonically for energy sources.
Both decomposers and consumers gain energy by consuming organic matter. A decomposer, however, only includes organisms that consume dead organisms, while consumers may consume any organisms, dead or alive. Decomposers are counted as consumers, but not all consumers are decomposers.
The organisms that use fermentation, such as yeast, gain energy by converting carbohydrates to carbon dioxides and alcohols. Organisms that use fermentation do not require sunlight.
A seahorse gains energy by eating other live organisms, meaning it is a carnivore. A seahorse is not a decomposer because decomposers gain energy from breaking down dead organisms.
A consumer is an organism that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
Producers are organisms that make their own food through photosynthesis or other reactions and are a food source for other organisms (e.x. plants, extremophile benthos communities). Consumers are organisms that ingest other organisms, like plants, in order to gain energy (e.x. herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, detrivores).
All animals, yourself included, consume food to gain energy. Unlike plants, animals can't use sunlight to produce energy, however, by eating plants or other animals, an animal can convert the energy that organism had for its own use.