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A heterotroph (f; ἕτερος heteros = `another`, `different` and τροφή trophe = `nutrition`) is an organism that cannot fix carbon and uses organic carbon for growth. Heterotrophs can be further divided based on how they obtain energy; if the heterotroph uses light for energy, then it is considered a photoheterotroph, while if the h...
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An organism that obtains its food from other organisms, living or dead.
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(from the article `protozoan`) ...(i.e., contain no photosynthetic pigments); they obtain their nutrients by feeding on algae, bacteria, and other protozoa. Such flagellates have ... ...principally carbohydrates) not only are used by the plant itself for synthesizing cellular structures and for fueling their basic metabolisms but ... ...
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(pronounced HET-er-oh-TROFE) A heterotroph (or consumer) is a living thing that eats other living things to survive. It cannot make its own food (unlike plants, which are autotrophs ). Animals are heterotrophs.
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<biochemistry, biology> An organism that requires carbon compounds from other plant or animal sources and cannot synthesise them itself not an autotroph. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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(het´әr-o-trōf″) a heterotrophic organism.
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Organisms which obtain energy and materials by eating other organisms; contrast with autotroph, a consumer as opposed to a producer.
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An organism that requires carbon compounds from other plant or animal sources and cannot synthesize them itself - not an autotroph.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: het′ĕr-ō-trof, -trōf Definitions: 1. A microorganism that obtains its carbon, as well as its energy, from organic compounds.
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Organism that must consume energy rich organic molecules for survival. Energy is released from these molecules through the chemical process respiration. Also see carnivores, herbivores, and detritivores.
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(chemoorganotrophy) an organism that requires organic substrates to obtain its carbon for growth and development.
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heterotroph Organisms; such as, all animals, some bacteria, and certain plants, that depend, either directly or indirectly, on other ortganisms for food because of their inability to manufacture proteins and carbohydrates from inorganic sources.
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heterotroph, heterotrophic 1. Referring to plants occurring in a wide range of habitats on a wide variety of soil types, and of protistans (algae, fungi, and protozoans, et al.) utilizing a wide variety of food materials. 2. An organism, such as any animal or fungus or almost any bacterium, that is unable to synthesize organic compounds from inorga...
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organism that uses fixed organic carbon compounds as its carbon source
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Any organism which requires an external supply of energy contained in complex organic compounds to maintain its existence.
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noun an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
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Any living organism that obtains its energy from organic substances produced by other organisms. All animals and fungi are heterotrophs, and they include herbivores, carnivores, and saprotrophs (those that feed on dead animal and plant material)
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A heterotroph is an organism that is unable to obtain its carbon from carbon dioxide. Instead, heterotrophs obtain carbon by feeding on the organic material present in other organisms, living or dead. All animals are heterotrophs. Blue whales feed on crustaceans. Lions eat mammals such as wildebeest, zebras and antelope. Atlantic puffins eat fish s...
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