No, it is actually the autotroph that can generate it's own food. Organisms such as grass and algae are autotrophs. Heterotrophs cannot synthesize their own food.
A snake is an organism that is a third-order heterotroph. Snakes belong to the third trophic level. There are approximately 3,000 species of snakes.
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.
If you mean heterotroph, than it is any organism that cannot produce its own food,(like plants with photosynthesis). A good example of a heterotroph is a human or a lion, if you prefer.
An autotroph is an organism that makes its own food. A heterotroph needs to eat food to survive but cannot make its own. That said, liverworts cannot make their own food, therefore they are heterotrophs.
a Heterotroph is the name for an organism that cannot make its own food. An Autotroph is an organism that is able to synethsize its own food. Both heterotrophs and autotrophs can be single-celled or multi-cellular organisms.
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A heterotroph, or consumer.
An organism that must take in food is called a heterotroph. An organism that is able to make their own food is called an autotroph.
An organism that cannot make its own food is called a heterotroph. Heterotrophs rely on consuming other organisms or organic matter to obtain the nutrients they need for survival. This is in contrast to autotrophs, which can produce their own food through processes like photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
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An organism that makes its own food is called an autotroph, think automatic. The organism automatically knows how to make its own food. A heterotroph is an organism that obtains food by consuming other living things. Examples of each: autotroph is grass, uses energy from the sun to create food. Heterotroph could be a wild dog, like a wolf that ate a lamb. The lamb would also be a heterotroph because it eats the grass.
An organism that makes its own food is called an autotroph, think automatic. The organism automatically knows how to make its own food. A heterotroph is an organism that obtains food by consuming other living things. Examples of each: autotroph is grass, uses energy from the sun to create food. Heterotroph could be a wild dog, like a wolf that ate a lamb. The lamb would also be a heterotroph because it eats the grass.
The term that applies is heterotroph, an organism that does not make its own food and acquires nutrition in the form of organic molecules made by other organisms. (Organisms that do create their own food supply are called autotrophs.).
A Heterotroph does not make its own food, whereas autotrophs do.
Autotrphs can make there own food by photosynthesis or by absorbing it Bacteria get food from both ways, they absorb their food from the ground, Protists can do this also, along with plants A heterotroph cannot make their own food, an example is a human