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Noun Concept
Categories: Trophic ecology, Biology terminology
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heterotroph  consumer  Allotroph  Allotrophic  Consumer organism
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An organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition WordNet 3.0
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An organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. Wikipedia
Organism that ingests or absorbs organic carbon in order to be able to produce energy Wikidata
An organism requiring complex organic compounds for food which it obtains by preying on other organisms or by eating particles of organic matter. OmegaWiki
An organism that obtains its food though other organisms. OmegaWiki
An organism which requires an external supply of energy in the form of food as it cannot synthesize its own. Wiktionary
Organism. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
organism
metabolism and energy change
HAS KIND
animal
photoheterotroph
consumer
filter feeder
chemoheterotroph
+2 relations
FOLLOWS
autophyte
OPPOSITE OF
autophyte
USES
heterotrophic nutrition
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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heterotroph
Wikipedia
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heterotroph
Wikidata
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heterotroph
Wiktionary
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heterotroph
OmegaWiki
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consumer, heterotroph
Wikipedia Redirections
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Allotroph, Allotrophic, Consumer (biology), Consumer organism, Consumer species, Heterophytic, Heterostroph, heterotrophic, heterotrophic plants, Heterotrophic process, heterotrophs, heterotrophy, Hetrophic, Zootropic

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