Examples of heterotroph in the following topics:
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- The two ways that microbial organisms can be classified are as autotrophs (supply their own energy) or as heterotrophs (use the products of others).
- A heterotroph is an organism that, unlike an autotroph, cannot fix carbon and uses organic carbon for growth.
- Heterotrophs use the products formed by autotrophs to survive.
- Photoheterotrophs are a type of heterotroph.
- Chemoheterotrophs are a type of heterotroph.
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- Picoplankton is the fraction of plankton which can be photosynthetic or heterotrophic.
- Picoplankton is the fraction of plankton, composed by cells between 0.2 and 2 μm, that is either photosynthetic (photosynthetic picoplankton; ) or heterotrophic (heterotrophic picoplankton).
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- Heterotrophs, which must feed on other organisms in order to obtain organic matter.
- Consumers (heterotrophs) cannot manufacture their own food and need to consume other organisms.
- Within ecosystems, the biotic factors that comprise the categories above can be organized into a food chain in which autotrophic producers use materials and nutrients recycled by decomposers to make their own food; the producers are in turn eaten by heterotrophic consumers.
- A food web depicts a collection of heterotrophic consumers that network and cycle the flow of energy and nutrients from a productive base of self-feeding autotrophs .
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- Not all phototrophs are photosynthetic but they all constitute a food source for heterotrophic organisms.
- A heterotroph is an organism that depends on organic matter already produced by other organisms for its nourishment.
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- Beggiatoa can grow chemoorgano-heterotrophically by oxidizing organic compounds to carbon dioxide in the presence of oxygen, although high concentrations of oxygen can be a limiting factor.
- Some species may oxidize hydrogen sulfide to elemental sulfur as a supplemental source of energy (facultatively litho-heterotroph).
- Beggiatoa can grow chemoorgano-heterotrophically by oxidizing organic compounds to carbon dioxide in the presence of oxygen, though high concentrations of oxygen can be a limiting factor.
- Some species may oxidize hydrogen sulfide to elemental sulfur as a supplemental source of energy (facultatively litho-heterotroph).
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- According to the way they obtain energy, bacteria are classified as heterotrophs or autotrophs.
- Heterotrophs obtain their energy by consuming other organisms.
- They also have different means of nutrition, which groups them as autotrophs or heterotrophs.
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- Most members are facultatively or obligately anaerobic, chemoautotrophs, and heterotrophic, but there are numerous exceptions.
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- Chemotrophs can be either autotrophic or heterotrophic.
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- Nitrogen is important for heterotroph survival, but it must first be degraded into basic building blocks, such as amino acids, in order to be used.
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- Under a few millimeters of water heterotrophic bacteria metabolize and consume oxygen.
- Bacteria, heterotrophic organisms, consume oxygen while decomposing organic material which depletes the soils of oxygen, thus increasing the redox potential.