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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.

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