Question

What are heterotrophs? (Topic Environment)

Answer 1

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Although different animals have unique features yet they show certain common features as well. For example -animals cannot prepare their food by themselves and they feed on either plants or animals for nutrition. They are called hetrotrophic.

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Answer 2

Heterotrophs are the group of organisms that eat other organisms to get nutrition from them or simply organisms that cannot produce their own food.

Explanation:

• Most of the herbivore, carnivore, and Omnivore are heterotrophs which eat other organism to get energy. There are other modes of nutrition as well such as autotrophs, saprophytic and parasitic nature of nutrition.
• The main counter-part of heterotroph is Autotrophic nutrition that is practiced by plants (to manufacture their food) and blue-green algae.