EVERYDAY SCIENCE

SCIENCE

VIRUS AND BACTERIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is a Heterotroph
A
Bacteria that do not use oxygen
B
Archaebacteria that live in extremely salty places like the Dead Sea
C
Organisms that cannot make their own food
D
Organisms that can make their own food using sunlight or chemicals
Explanation: 

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: -Organisms that can not synthesise their own food are called heterotrophs. Heterotrophs depend directly or indirectly on autotrophs for their food. They do not have photosynthetic organelles as autotrophs.

Detailed explanation-3: -These plants, called heterotrophs (other feeding), lack chlorophyll and cannot make their own food.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: Non-green plants cannot make their own food due to the absence of chlorophyll in their leaves. Some plants obtain nutrition from dead and decaying matter, and are known as saprophytes.

Detailed explanation-5: -Heterotrophs are those organisms which cannot prepare their own food from nature and hence depend on other organisms which produce food (autotrophs).

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