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Are echinoderms heterotrophs or autotrophs?

Echinoderms, like all animals, are heterotrophs and need to eat food to survive.


All the members of Kingdom Animalia are heterotrophs?

Heterotrophs are any organism that can't produce its own food. In other words, it has to feed on other living things. Humans are heterotrophs because of this, whereas an autotroph or a plant can make its food from light water and co2, but all heterotrophs have to eat in order to survive.


Can heterotrophs produce their own energy?

Heterotrophs cannot produce their own food, if that is what you mean by energy. For example, humans are heterotrophs. Autotrophs, however, can produce their own food (like plants, algae, etc). Both heterotrophs and autotrophs need energy to survive, they just use it in different ways.


Is a dolphin autotrophic?

heterotroph


Can produce their own energy?

Heterotrophs cannot produce their own food, if that is what you mean by energy. For example, humans are heterotrophs. Autotrophs, however, can produce their own food (like plants, algae, etc). Both heterotrophs and autotrophs need energy to survive, they just use it in different ways.


What is the structure and funcuntion of carbohydrate?

A carbohydrate is a complex molecule of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen found in all living organisms. These molecules store energy. All heterotrophs need carbohydrates for the energy they need to survive. Autotrophs make carbohydrates through photosynthesis or other processes.


How do deers depends on plants to survive?

Autotrophs supply food for the heterotrophs.


Is yersinia pestis an autotroph?

No. They are heterotrophs. All the pathogens are heterotrophs, probably.


How are heterotrophs and autotrophs similar in their dependence on external sources for energy and nutrients?

Heterotrophs and autotrophs both rely on external sources for energy and nutrients. Heterotrophs obtain these from consuming other organisms, while autotrophs produce their own energy through processes like photosynthesis. Both types of organisms need external sources to survive and function.


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.


Organisms that consume other organism because they cannot synthesize their own carbohydrates?

Heterotrophs are organisms that cannot produce their own carbohydrates through photosynthesis and must consume other organisms for energy. They include animals, fungi, and some types of bacteria. By consuming other organisms, heterotrophs obtain the necessary nutrients and energy they need to survive.


Why are humans called heterotrophs?

Yes, all animals are heterotrophs and must consume nutrients either directly from autotrophs, or indirectly from the animals that eat autotrophs.