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who make their own food and do not depend upon others

2006-10-11 06:10:58 · 6 answers · asked by rozi g 1 in Science & Mathematics Botany

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An autotroph (from the Greek autos = self and trophe = nutrition) is an organism that produces organic compounds from carbon dioxide as a carbon source, using either light or reactions of inorganic chemical compounds, as a source of energy. An autotroph is known as a producer in a food chain. Plants and other organisms that carry out photosynthesis are phototrophs (or photoautotrophs). Bacteria that utilize the oxidation of inorganic compounds such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonium or ferrous iron as an energy source are chemoautotrophs.

2006-10-11 22:01:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Organisms that are able to make their own food (in the form of sugars) by using the energy of the Sun are called autotrophs, meaning "self-feeders". An example of such a being is shown in this picture. This green slime, also known as algae, may have been among the earliest life on Earth. Algae self-feeds by way of photosynthesis and only indirectly contributes to the weathering of the rock on which it resides. Over millions of years of evolution, this lineage of photosynthetic bacteria eventually gave rise to modern day plants.

The heterotrophs are those who feed from pranic energy from breathing and from water and animal and/or vegetable food that digest in their stomachs. The only pranic energy is not enough to maintain alive a heterotroph person, likewise the only food and water are neither enough to maintain the heterotroph alive since he or she need breathing. The autotrophs are people that only feed from pranic energy and live a healthy and active life. They take the pranic energy mainly through the crown chakra.

2006-10-11 06:12:33 · answer #2 · answered by just lQQkin 4 · 0 1

an organism that needs only simple inorganic compound to grow thus carbon dioxide or carbonates serve as the carbon source and can be built up into complex molecules using light or chemical energy .simple inorganic nitrogen compound are utilized in the synthesis of proteins. most plants and bacteria are autotrophs

2006-10-11 10:52:03 · answer #3 · answered by shamsayasmin 3 · 0 0

Autotrophs are plants (and some micro-organisms) who make their own food via photosynthesis. Heterotrophs require organic materials to ingest. These are animals mostly.

2006-10-11 06:12:01 · answer #4 · answered by Hard Rocker 3 · 0 1

Green plants who can prepare their own food are called autotrophs.

2006-10-12 13:57:40 · answer #5 · answered by moosa 5 · 0 1

Not me. But I could do it.

2006-10-11 06:12:08 · answer #6 · answered by august17 1 · 0 1

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