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A heterotroph cannot produce its own food and must therefore consume other organisms to live. All animals and fungi are heterotrophs.
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∙ 9y agoHeterotrophs are animals and organisms that eat autotrophs, or producers. Carnivores and omnivores are examples of heterotrophs that eat animals.
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∙ 11y agoA consumer
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A carnivorous predator.
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∙ 9y agoOmnivores and carnivores eat other animals.
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∙ 12y agoYes. Autotrophs produce their own food (i.e. plants). Heterotrophs eat other organisms to obtain their food for energy
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∙ 12y agoAn animal that eats herbivores is a carnivore. If it is dead, then scavengers will eat it, or decomposers will feed on it until all of it is gone.
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What type of heterotroph is frog?
A frog is an omnivore
How do you use heterotroph in a sentence?
Animals are heterotrophs.
Can an animal be both an autotroph or heterotroph?
Of course dogs are heterotrophs. They must consume nutrients as they can not make the nutrients needed to fuel their bodies.
Is staphylococcus aureus heterotrophic or autotrophic?
Since Salmonella is a type of bacteria, and bacteria are heterotrophs, salmonella is probably also a heterotroph.
Is the jellyfish autotroph or heterotroph?
An autotroph is a plant, which makes it's own energy. A heterotroph is an animal that eats other organisms to get energy.
Is a bat a vegetarian?
A bat is a heterotroph because it eats other other animals
What is an example of a heterotroph that only eats animals?
Carnivores.
What type of heterotroph is a pig?
An omnivore is the type of heterotroph that a pig is. In the wild, they will eat both plants and animals.
What are organisms that eats other animals?
Animals that eat other organisms are called carnivores, or sometimes secondary consumers.
What do you call a heterotroph that eats animals?
A heterotroph that eats other animals is called a consumer. There are various levels of consumers, primary, secondary, tertiary, and so forth. If you need more information about the different levels send me a message and I'll try to answer your questions. Hope this helped.
Is a heterotroph and a herbivore the same thing?
Not exactly. A heterotroph has to get its' food from other complex organisms but that can mean other animals (meat) and plants. But a herbivore eats plants only.
Is an elephant a autotroph or hetertroph?
An elephant is a heterotroph, meaning it eats plants and other animals to obtain food. Autotrophs are organisms like plants that are able to produce their own food.
What is an animal that catches and eats other animals?
There could be a number of responses, but I believe you're eluding to predator or heterotroph.
What is the organism called that eats the organism that eats it own food?
Heterotroph
Why is a zebra a heterotroph?
A zebra is not an autotroph. Autotrophs make their own food. Zebras a considered a heterotroph because it eats other organisms for food.
Is a lady bug a heterotroph or a autotroph?
A ladybug is a heterotroph and not an autotroph. A heterotroph cannot produce its own energy, instead it gets the energy from what it eats.
How do you use heterotope as a sentence?
A heterotroph is an organism that eats other organisms for energy. The heterotroph ate the plant.
