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there was no oxygen in Earth's early atmosphere.

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Q: Why do scientists think the first living cells to spear on earth were pobably anaerobic heterotrophs?
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What is the answer for eats other heterotrophs?

Heterotrophs are living things that have to eat other living things to survive. That would be an animal, since plants make their own food.Heterotrophs that eat other heterotrophs would be animals that eat other animals. Heterotrophs that eat only other heterotrophs would be a carnivore. If the heterotroph eats both heterotrophs (animals) and autotrophs (plants), that would describe an omnivore.


In living systems which correctly sequences the flow of energy?

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What living things that must ingest or absorb their food they can not make food internally?

Heterotrophs


Are the heterotrophs the first living organisms?

The first organisms would have needed to make their own food out of what was available. This characteristic would make them autotrophic.


Organisms that obtain energy by taking in food are called?

heterotrophs


What is breathing without air called?

You can not breath without air..... Do you mean living without oxygen......then that the word is 'anaerobic'.


What make animals animals?

1. It is a living thing. 2. They are heterotrophs. 3. They do not have cell walls.


What term means living without little or no oxygen?

anaerobic :)


What do autotrophs and heterotrophs have in common?

The similarities between autotrophs and heterotrophs are they are both living things. The essentials for their life is air, sunlight and water. They both also need food to live.


The term used to describe microorganisms that are capable of living without air is?

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How do autographs differ from heterotrophs in obtaining energy?

First of all, autographs and heterotrophs are not even closely related. Heterotrophs obtain energy by consuming organic matter of other organisms, either living or deceased. Autotrophs obtain energy by capturing it from sunlight (photosynthesis) or capturing chemical energy (chemosynthesis).