| 21. | Instead of generating energy from sunlight, it is parasitic, more specifically a myco-heterotroph.
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| 22. | He also found nitrogen-fixing bacteria and other bacteria, called heterotrophs, that decompose dead algae.
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| 23. | Heterotrophs function as consumers in food chains : they obtain organic carbon by eating autotrophs or other heterotrophs.
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| 24. | Heterotrophs function as consumers in food chains : they obtain organic carbon by eating autotrophs or other heterotrophs.
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| 25. | It is a small myco-heterotroph lacking chlorophyll and obtaining its nutrients from fungi in the soil.
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| 26. | Ecologists can broadly group all life forms into one of two trophic layers, the autotrophs and the heterotrophs.
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| 27. | They would become heterotrophs, organisms with the ability to absorb nutrients from the environment for energy and growth.
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| 28. | Other organisms, called heterotrophs, take in autotrophs as food to carry out functions necessary for their life.
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| 29. | Heterotrophs obtain energy by breaking down organic molecules ( carbohydrates, fats, and proteins ) obtained in food.
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| 30. | Because ecologically, autotrophic organisms precede heterotrophs, it seems natural to assume that evolutionarily this must also be so.
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