No, vegetarians, or better described, as herbivores in this example, are not the only heterotrophs that get all their energy from plants. All living organisms, including carnivores, also derive energy from plants by eating the herbivores.
Snakes and elephants are both examples of heterotrophs since they consume other organisms for food instead of making their own. It doesn't matter that the former is a carnivore and the latter is an herbivore.
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Heterotroph, autotrophs can create their own food (plants and some bacteria). Heterotrophs consume other organisms to aquire their energy and much energy is lost between each level.
Three types of heterotrophes are: humans, alligators and fish. Plants are autotrophes which means they produce their own food within their body. If you compare the three heterotrophs I listed above, then they all consume (or eat) different types of food and capture them in different ways.
The kingdom that includes both autotrophs and heterotrophs is the Plantae kingdom. Autotrophs in this kingdom are represented by plants that produce their own food through photosynthesis, while heterotrophs in the form of fungi are also included in this kingdom that rely on other organisms for nutrients.
yes chimpanzees in Africa are vegetarians they only eat plants and vegetables.
Heterotrophs that eat both plant and animals are referred to as omnivores. Animals that only eat plants and herbivores and those who only eat meat are carnivores.
Goats eat plants, hence they are classified as heterotrophs. Only an organism that creates its own food and does not eat any other organism would be classified as an autotroph.
It's not. Autotrophs (plants), were the first organisms on Earth. They photsynthesize their food, thus creating an ample food supply for a first degree heterotroph. According to the food-energy pyramid, of the 100% energy contained in the autotrophs, only 10% is passed on to the first degree heterotrophs. Of that, only 10% is passed on, meaning that of the original sum, only 1% of energy is passed on to the second-degree heterotrophs. Therefore, there must be enough autotrophs to support any population of heterotrophs. It's illogical then to reason that heterotrophs were the first organisms. They would have had no food. Any type of food for a heterotrophs is either an autotroph or a lower degree heterotroph that eats an autotroph.
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.
Heterotrophs can eat autotrophs or other heterotrophs.
The origin of all energy for life on earth is the sun. Only plants and other photosynthesizers (i.e.alge) can use the sun's energy to support their own life. All other life on Earth (heterotrophs) have to get their energy either from eating organisms that directly get their energy from the sun (plants), or by eating organisms that ate organisms that got their energy from the sun.
An autotroph creates its own food/energy source, typically through photosynthesis. Heterotrophs rely upon outside sources for food/energy. The lowest level of heterotrophs are herbivores, or plant (aka autotrophs) eaters. Progressing up the food chain there are also carnivores (meat - aka other heterotrophs - eaters) and omnivores (will eat both plants and animals). The relationship from the heterotrophs side is fairly simple and easy to see - autotrophs are a food/energy source. The flipside, is that the heterotrophs, through bodily waste and other decaying matter, leave the minerals and nutrients that the autotrophs require to complete the photosynthetic process. In essence, the relationship is cyclical.
heterotrophs eat other organisms because they can not make their own food. so they obtain their energy by braking down their food to a simpler state through the process of respiration so yes heterotrophs preform respiration
The kingdom of protists has both heterotrophs, autotrophs, and uni/multicellular organisms.
Some Fungi can be multicellular and others can be unicellular. Their cell walls are chitin and fungi are also heterotrophs. Plants are only multicellular. Their cell walls are of cellulose and plants are autotrophs.
anything that's a herbivore. (eats only plants) bunnies, bees, vegetarians, squirrels, stuff like that.