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A heterotroph cannot produce its own food, an autotroph can! A chemotroph makes food by compounds(chemicals like table salt(NaCl)

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What organisms that cannot make their own food are?

Organisms that cannot make their own food are called consumers, as they have to basically eat or feed off of other organisms in order to survive.


What organism cant make its own foodand gets its energy by eating other organisms?

Heterotrophs are organisms that cannot make its own food and gets energy by eating other organisms.


What do you call an organisms that cannot make their own food?

Organisms that do not make their own food in other words, organisms that are not able to carry out photosynthesis on their own are called heterotrophs. Plants are called autotrophs. Mammals is a good example of heterotrophs. Only plants and certain fungi are capable of carrying out the process of photosynthesis.


What three plant-like organisms which cannot produce their own food.?

Pretty much all plant organisms can produce their own food. However, organisms like mushrooms are often confused for plants, but they CANNOT make their own food. Mushrooms are fungus, meaning that they have to get their food from other dead or decaying organisms. This makes them different from both plants and animals because they don't eat food, but they don't make it for themselves either. They absorb it through their roots.


Which Organism can be made up of many parts but cannot make food?

Mushrooms are organisms made up of many parts (mycelium, cap, stem) that rely on other organisms or decaying matter for food through a process of decomposition. They cannot make their own food through photosynthesis like plants can.

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What describes organisms that cannot make there own food?

Heterotroph


What are organisms that cannot make their food called?

Organisms that cannot make their own food are called consumers.


What describes organisms that cannot make their own food and must feed off other living things?

An organism which cannot make its own food but instead absorb nutrition from decaying organisms is called a saprophyte. for example, fungi are saprophytic organisms.


What are organisms that cannot make own food called?

Organisms that cannot make their own food are called consumers.


What organisms that cannot make their food?

Organisms that cannot make their own food are called consumers, as they have to basically eat or feed off of other organisms in order to survive.


What organisms that cannot make their own food?

Organisms that cannot make their own food are called consumers, as they have to basically eat or feed off of other organisms in order to survive.


What organisms that cannot make their own food are?

Organisms that cannot make their own food are called consumers, as they have to basically eat or feed off of other organisms in order to survive.


Which term describes organisms that cannot make their own food and must feed off other living things?

Consumers,decomposers,producers


What organism can't make their own food?

Consumers are organisms that cannot make their own food.


What is an organism that cannot make its own food but instead absorbs food from decaying organisms?

An organism which cannot make its own food but instead absorb nutrition from decaying organisms is called a saprophyte. for example, fungi are saprophytic organisms.


Which organisms cannot make their own food?

Heterotrophs are the organisms that cannot make their own food. An organism that makes its own food is called an autotroph. Autotrophs, such as plants, make their food through the photosynthesis process.


Organisms that cannot make their own food are called?

heterotrophs