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noun - an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.
HETEROTROPH - A heterotroph (; Ancient Greek héteros = other plus trophe = "nutrition") is an organism that cannot produce its own food, relying instead on the i...
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| An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition. |
| an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition |
| An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances. |
| a living thing that gets its food from other plants or animals |
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A heterotroph (; Ancient Greek héteros = other plus trophe = "nutrition") is an organism that cannot produce its own food, relying instead on the intake of nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. In the food chain, heterotrophs are secondary and tertiary consumers. Ninety-five percent or more of all types of living organisms are heterotrophic, including all animals and fungi and some bacteria and protists. The term heterotroph arose in microbiology in 1946 as part of a classification of microorganisms based on their type of nutrition. The term is now used in many fields, such as ecology in describing the food chain. * Heterotrophs may be subdivided according to their energy source. If the heterotroph uses chemical energy, it is a chemoheterotroph (e.g., humans and mushrooms). If it uses light for energy, then it is a photoheterotroph (e.g., green non-sulfur bacteria). * Heterotrophs represent one of the two mechanisms of nutrition (trophic levels), |