heterotroph

A heterotroph is known as a consumer in the food chain.

For the use of "consumer" in biology, see Heterotroph.

Usually this means that it may be either autotroph or heterotroph at different times in its life.

All animals must ingest other organisms or their products for sustenance (see Heterotroph).

The term "heterotroph" very often refers to chemoorganoheterotrophs.

A. godoyi is a soil heterotroph.

They can be any type of heterotroph: omnivore, carnivore, herbivore, or detritivore.

The life-style of chelicerates is largely carnivorous, or other kinds of heterotroph.

It is still a heterotroph as it needs reduced carbon compounds to live and cannot make do with just light and CO.

As a heterotroph which derives its nutrients from other plants, it lacks chlorophyll and is brownish-gray or whitish in color.

Trophic mutualism often occurs between an autotroph and a heterotroph.

Although there are many examples of trophic mutualisms, the heterotroph is generally a fungus or bacteria.

When acting as a heterotroph (animal), the Euglena surrounds a particle of food and consumes it by phagocytosis.

As a heterotroph, the Pholisma sonorae plant lacks chlorophyll and is grayish, whitish, or brown in color.

Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a heterotroph that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked).

Consequently, risk of contamination with other organisms like bacteria or fungi is lower in photobioreactors when compared to bioreactors for heterotroph organisms.

Carnivorous organisms ultimately rely on autotrophs because the nutrients obtained from their heterotroph prey come from autotrophs they consumed.

Also A. profundus grow lithotrophically, but while this species needs acetate and CO for biosynthesis they are heterotroph.

The sugars and other molecular components produced by the autotrophs are then broken down, releasing stored solar energy, and giving the heterotroph the energy required for survival.

It has the ability to eat plants, and afterwards using the chlorophyll granules from the plants to generate energy, turning itself from being a heterotroph into an autotroph.

Digestive symbyotes - Digestive symbyotes are an example of an important trophic mutualism that does not occur between an autotroph and heterotroph.

T. kodakarensis is an obligate anaerobe, and a heterotroph, growing rapidly on a variety of organic substrates in the presence of elemental sulfur, producing hydrogen sulfide gas.

A generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources (for example, a heterotroph with a varied diet).

They estimate that the development of a 100 kilobase genome of a DNA/protein primitive heterotroph into a 7000 gene filamentous cyanobacterium would have required only 7 Ma.

The V. campbellii strains PEL22A, BAA-1116, AND4 are known to be mixotrophic or more specifically a photo(organo)heterotroph.