Energy is needed to carry out life processes. Energy is required to break down and build up molecules and to transport molecules across plasma membranes. All life’s work needs energy. A lot of energy is also simply lost to the environment as heat.
The story of life is a story of energy flow — its capture, its change of form, its use for work, and its loss as heat. Energy, unlike matter, cannot be recycled, so organisms require a constant input of energy. Life runs on chemical energy. Where do living organisms get this chemical energy?
The chemical energy that organisms need comes from food. Food consists of organic molecules that store energy in their chemical bonds. In terms of obtaining food for energy, there are two types of organisms: autotrophs and heterotrophs. Autotrophs are organisms that make their own food. Autotrophs are also called producers. They produce food not only for themselves but for all other living things as well .This is why autotrophs form the basis of food chains. Heterotrophs are living things that cannot make their own food. Instead, they get their food by consuming other organisms. Heterotrophs include all animals and fungi and many single-celled organisms. What do you think would happen to consumers if all producers were to vanish from Earth?
1. Which of the statement below is incorrect?
a)Inside every cell of all living things, energy is needed to carry out life processes
b)The chemical energy that organisms need comes from food
c)All Organisms do not need energy to do work
2. Heterotrophs are also called
a)Producers
b)Consumers
c)Decomposers
3. Energy cannot be recycled
A)True
B)False
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Answer:
1. option c is incorrect
2. option b consumers is the correct answer
3. option b its false
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Answer:1- c- all organisms do not need energy
2-b- heterotrophs are also called consumers
3-a-energy cannot be recycled
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