Because animals are not able to photosynthesize energy from the sun for their own needs.
Animals must digest food to receive the essential nutrients that the particular organism needs to survive.
Animals must digest food to receive the essential nutrients that the particular organism needs to survive.
A heterotroph is any organism that requires organic substrates in order to survive. It is a consumer which must eat other plants and animals, and cannot produce its own food.
Humans, like all animals, are heterotrophic. They can't synthesize their own food and have to eat other organisms to survive.
Humans, like all animals, are heterotrophic. They can't synthesize their own food and have to eat other organisms to survive.
A heterotroph is an organism or cell that cannot make its own food. In a word, it is not self-sufficient. The common heterotroph that everybody sees are animals. Animals must eat other organisms to survive. Unlike plants, which are autotrophs, the opposite of heterotrophs, they have no method to produce its own nutrients.
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