Question

Write short notes on heterotrophs.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

heterotroph is an organism that cannot manufacture its own food by carbon fixation and therefore derives its intake of nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. In the food chain, heterotrophs are secondary and tertiary consumers.

Answer 2

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• The mode of nutrition in which organism cannot able to synthesise their own food are known as heterotrophic mode of nutrition.
• Hetero means "other" and troph means "food".
• The organism having heterotrophic mode of nutrition are known as heterotrophs.
• The heterotrophs are either directly or indirectly dependent on autotrophs for their food.
• Heterotrophs are the consumer of the environment.
• Ex - animals , some non - green plants , bacteria , fungi etc.