OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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Question
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An organism that relies on other organisms for food (another name for a consumer)
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autotroph
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detrivore
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heterotroph
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producer
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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: -Heterotrophic nutrition is the mode of nutrition where the organism is unable to prepare its food and hence, depends upon plants or other organisms for nutrition.
Detailed explanation-3: -Omnivores. Omnivores are heterotrophs that consume both plants and animals. They include pigs, brown bears, gulls, crows, and humans. Omnivores actually fall on a continuum between herbivores and carnivores.
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