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Living Environment Regents June 2003 Question 40 |
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Ecology
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Correct Answer: (3) It consumes preformed organic molecules.
Heterotrophs are organisms that obtain organic food molecules by eating other organisms or their by-products.
Incorrect Answers:
Organisms that produce their own food by photosynthesis are called photoautotrophs.
Heterotrophs usually do not stay in one place for its entire lifetime because they need to hund for food unlike the autotrophs. Example of a heterotroph is the eagle.
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