DENDROLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A heterotroph is an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients. The term stems from the Greek words hetero for “other” and trophe for “nourishment.” Organisms are characterized into two broad categories based upon how they obtain their energy and nutrients: autotrophs and heterotrophs.

Detailed explanation-2: -A heterotroph is an organism that lacks the ability to chemically create its own nutrition from inorganic molecules. Heterotrophs rely on other types of life to meet their organic food requisites due to this limitation. Heterotrophs include bacteria, fungi, yeast, cows, dogs, bats, birds, insects, humans etc.

Detailed explanation-3: -A heterotroph (/ˈhɛtərəˌtroʊf, -ˌtrɒf/; from Ancient Greek (héteros) ‘other’, and (trophḗ) ‘nutrition’) is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter.

Detailed explanation-4: -Heterotrophs cannot synthesize their own food and rely on other organisms(both plants and animals) for nutrition.