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It is any organism that can make its own food by light energy or chemical energy

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Is a scavenger a autotrophic or a heterotrophic?

A scavenger is a heterotrophic organism, meaning it relies on consuming dead organic matter for its energy and nutrients. Autotrophic organisms, on the other hand, are able to produce their own energy through processes like photosynthesis.


An organism capable of synthesizing its own food is described as what?

Autotrophic


What do you know about autotrophic organism?

The process of obtaining energy from the source


What organism is autotrophic has a cell wall made of cellulose and is multicellular?

The organism you are describing is a plant. Plants are autotrophic, meaning they can produce their own food through photosynthesis. They have a cell wall made of cellulose, which provides structural support, and they are typically multicellular, consisting of various specialized tissues and organs. Examples include trees, shrubs, and flowering plants.


What the best definition of autotrophic?

An organism that makes it's own food.


Are moss heterotrophic or autotrophic?

some are autotrophic, some are heterotrophic some are autotrophic, some are heterotrophic some are autotrophic, some are heterotrophic some are autotrophic, some are heterotrophic


Is a British soldier autotrophic or heterotrophic?

Answer The words "autotrophic" and "heterotrophic" are biological terms describing how an organism metabolyses carbon. Broadly speaking, an autotrophic organism is something like a green plant which metabolyses carbon by photosynthesis and a heterotrophic organism obtains carbon usually by eating an autotrophic organism. As a human, a British soldier would be heterotrophic.


Which organism carries autotrophic nutrition the hawkcricket grass or a deer?

the bronze deer


Is a tapeworm autotrophic or heterotrophic?

Heterotrophic- it feeds off the food that is ingested by the organism.


What organism is both heterotrophic and autotrophic?

Carnivorous plants are one example, but there may be others…


Is physarum an autotrophic or hetertrophic organism?

Physarum polycephalum belongs to the supergroup Amoebozoa which are Heterotrophic organisms.


Is algae heterotrophic?

Alga is not a heterotrophic organism. It is an autotrophic organism because it prepares its food on its own by using the phenomena of photosynthesis. Algae has chlorophyll (due to which it appears green) which helps it to capture the solar energy which helps it to prepare its food in the presence of water, nutrients & oxygen.