EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Heterotrophs are known as consumers because they consume producers or other consumers. Dogs, birds, fish, and humans are all examples of heterotrophs. Heterotrophs occupy the second and third levels in a food chain, a sequence of organisms that provide energy and nutrients for other organisms.

Detailed explanation-2: -Consumers include all animals and fungi and many protists and bacteria. They may consume autotrophs or other heterotrophs or organic molecules from other organisms.

Detailed explanation-3: -The autotrophs synthesize food or sugar molecules using sunlight as the main source of energy through-photosynthesis. The heterotrophs consume the autotrophs or the sugar molecules. The heterotrophs perform cellular respiration to break down these complex organic molecules and release energy in the form of ATP.

Detailed explanation-4: -An organism that feeds only on heterotrophs is a carnivore. Carnivores are animals that eat only meat, meaning that they consume only animals or heterotrophs. In contrast, omnivores are organisms that eat both autotrophs (plants) and heterotrophs (animals), whereas herbivores eat only autotrophs.

Detailed explanation-5: -There are four different types of heterotrophs which include herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and decomposers. Herbivores, carnivores and omnivores exhibit the holozoic type of heterotrophic nutrition.