Chemical energy of food .
Autotrophs store energy in long chains of glucose molecules. These chains can be either starch or cellulose, depending on how the glucose are connected. When a heterotroph consumes the autotroph, it breaks down the cellulose or starch into its basic glucose components. The consumer either completely breaks down the glucose for energy, or it stores the molecules as fat or glycogen.
A ladybug is a heterotroph and not an autotroph. A heterotroph cannot produce its own energy, instead it gets the energy from what it eats.
A heterotroph is a creature that must ingest biomass to obtain its energy and nutrition.
An autotroph can make it's own energy. A heterotroph has to eat the autotroph to gain energy. To put it simple, an autotroph is a plant and it turns sunlight into energy in the form of glucose. A heterotroph is an animal and can't make it's own energy, so it eats the plant and the glucose, gaining energy from that.
Autotroph & Heterotroph
The viper-fish is a heterotroph.
Yes a wolf is a heterotroph! Heterotroph means that the organism can't make it's own energy!
No, heterotroph and consumer are not exactly the same. Heterotrophs are organisms that obtain energy by consuming other organisms or organic substances. Consumers are a type of heterotroph that specifically refers to organisms that feed on other organisms for energy.
A mouse is a herbivorous heterotroph, meaning it primarily consumes plants for energy.
A heterotroph is an organism that eats other organisms for energy. The heterotroph ate the plant.
A paramecium is a heterotroph because it does not perform photosynthesis to make it's own sugar using energy from the sun.
Wild turkeys are heterotrophs. This means that they must acquire energy and they cannot produce their own energy from the Sun.