Why aren't all organisms producers? Please answer quickly it is very important thanks?

Question

you have to explain why is it so important that for our environment. Because Im writing an assignment on it!!!

Answer 1

all organisms ARE producers (except for a few hybrids). if they werent they wouldnt be there in the first place. something had to make their parents, and their parents' parents, and so on.

Answer 2

Because producers are slow and create very little. The best way for consumers to gain energy is by stealing all the energy that has been created by a bunch of producers.

I would think consumers evolved when nature found out that stealing the energy was much easier than making it. The food chain goes: plants, herbivores, carnivores who eat the herbivores, and carnivores that eat anything. Essentially, the higher up you go, the organisms are simply exchanging energy sources and nutrients.

That is my shooting-from-the-hip response. Check Wikipedia when in doubt.

Answer 3

Producers are organisms that turn inorganic substances into complex organic molecules such as glucose.

If every organism was a producer food chains wouldn't work. Energy must be moved from each trophic level (by animals on higher trophic level eating ones on lower trophic level) and release heat energy back into the environment.

So organsims that don't make their own food cannot be producers. The keyword for producers is "produce". PLants can make glucose, which is their food. They are also called autotrophs "self feeding". Animals that feed on producers are called herbivores, and are called heterotrophs. Carnivores are also included in this category.

If you still are confused just im me.

The whole point of food chains is to recylce nutrients and move energy from trophic level to trophic level.

Answer 4

Autotrophs are primary producers and heterotrophs are are called consumers. Autrotrophs manufacture their own food. Heterotrophs (animals, fungi, most protists, and prokaryotes, and nongreen plants must obtain organic molecules that have been synthesized by autotrophs.
It is important because with out producers animals would not be able to survive plain and simple.

Answer 5

not all organisms are producers for the very simple reason that there will be no more consumers/end users if all that exists in this planet are producers...