SCIENCE
RESPIRATION
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Question
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an organism that must eat other organisms for energy
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an organism that makes its own food
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a plant
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an organism that has cells with chloroplasts
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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: -Heterotrophs cannot make their own food, so they must eat or absorb it. For this reason, heterotrophs are also known as consumers. 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: -All heterotrophs must eat food to get energy. True 14. Autotrophs do not need to eat food because they make food.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Heterotroph is an organism that is unable to synthesize its own food, and therefore, has to rely on other sources, specifically plant and animal matter.” All animals and non-photosynthetic plants are classified as heterotrophs since they are unable to prepare food.
Detailed explanation-5: -They must rely on an organic source of carbon that has originated as part of another living organism. Heterotrophs depend either directly or indirectly on autotrophs for nutrients and food energy.