NEET BIOLOGY

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: -Organisms that depend on plants or autotrophs for food are called heterotrophs, and the mode of nutrition is known as heterotrophic nutrition. 2. Autotrophs are called producers as they make food required by all other organisms. Heterotrophs are called consumers as they consume food prepared by autotrophs.

Detailed explanation-3: -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. Some omnivores eat more plants than animals, whereas other omnivores eat more animals than plants.

Detailed explanation-4: -heterotroph, in ecology, an organism that consumes other organisms in a food chain. In contrast to autotrophs, heterotrophs are unable to produce organic substances from inorganic ones. They must rely on an organic source of carbon that has originated as part of another living organism.

Detailed explanation-5: -Consumers include all animals and fungi and many protists and bacteria. They may consume autotrophs or other heterotrophs or organic molecules from other organisms.