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What are consumers that surrounds engulf and ingest their food?
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∙ 12y ago
A producer may mean an organism that produces its own energy. This means a plant, as they produce energy in the form of sugars from water, CO2 and UV light.
A consumer that only eats plants would be a herbivore (an animal that only eats plants), or a fungi that only digests rotting plants.
Mossie Auer
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∙ 11y agoThe animals that eat first order (primary) consumers are second order (secondary) consumers. The animals that feed on second order consumers are third order consumers. The animals that prey on the third order consumers are tertiary (fourth order) consumers.
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∙ 12y agoany type of single-celled protist
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∙ 11y agothat is the olny food they can get.
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How are producers related to primary consumers?
Producers are the food for primary consumers.
Why all consumers are dependent on producers for food?
Consumers can't make their own food.
What is a primary consumers job in a food chain?
Primary consumers in the food chain are those animals that eat plants. They are, in turn, eaten by secondary consumers.
When do you feed as a primary consumer?
Within an ecological food chain, consumers are categorized into three groups: primary consumers, secondary consumers, and the tertiary consumers.
What do primary consumers eat for food?
No, I think primary consumers eat plants. Plants are producers.
Are consumers that surround, engulf, and ingest their food.?
any type of single-celled protist
How does a sarcodine engulf food?
It surrounds the food with pseudopodia.
What is the definition of engulf?
Engulf: transitive verb 1 : to flow over and enclose : OVERWHELM <the mounting seas threatened to engulf the island> 2 : to take in (food) by or as if by flowing over and enclosing something that surrounds you as if to cover you up
What is endocitosis?
Many single-celled organisms employ endocytosis to ingest food particles. In this process the plasma membrane extends outwards and surrounds the food particle.
What is a soft skin like structure that surrounds a cell and allows the cell to ingest digested food?
cell membrane or permeable membrane.
What are the similarities and differences between producers consumers and decomposers?
Producers create food through photosynthesis, whereas decomposers breakdown dead or decaying matter. Decomposers do not make their own food, and so are consumers.
What does an amoeba form when it surrounds its food?
Certain chemical gradients began to form microtubule sub-units together that extend out on two places on the amoeba's membrane into what are called pseudopodia. These pseudopodia engulf the food and the ameoba pull itself toward the food rather than pulling the pseudopodia into the main body.
What does an amoeba form when it surrounds food?
Certain chemical gradients began to form microtubule sub-units together that extend out on two places on the amoeba's membrane into what are called pseudopodia. These pseudopodia engulf the food and the ameoba pull itself toward the food rather than pulling the pseudopodia into the main body.
How do you ingest food?
Eat it
What distinguishes animal heterotrophy from fungi heterotrophy?
Animals ingest their food while fungi grow into it.
Do protists absorb or ingest food?
absorbs the food!
How do amobea get its food?
By the process of phagocytosis. They use pseudopodia to engulf
