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  2. Heterotroph - Wikipedia

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    A heterotroph (/ ˈ h ɛ t ər ə ˌ t r oʊ f,-ˌ t r ɒ f /; [1] [2] from Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros) 'other' and τροφή (trophḗ) 'nutrition') is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. In the food chain, heterotrophs are ...

  3. Myco-heterotrophy - Wikipedia

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    Monotropa uniflora, an obligate myco-heterotroph known to parasitize fungi belonging to the Russulaceae. [1]Myco-heterotrophy (from Greek μύκης mýkes ' fungus ', ἕτερος héteros ' another ', ' different ' and τροφή trophé ' nutrition ') is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon ...

  4. Heterotrophic nutrition - Wikipedia

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    Heterotrophic nutrition is a mode of nutrition in which organisms depend upon other organisms for food to survive. They can't make their own food like Green plants. Heterotrophic organisms have to take in all the organic substances they need to survive. All animals, certain types of fungi, and non-photosynthesizing plants are heterotrophic.

  5. Primary nutritional groups - Wikipedia

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    Some bacteria (cyanobacteria), some eukaryotes (eukaryotic algae, land plants). Photosynthesis. Breaking Chemical Compounds Chemo-Organic-organo-Organic-heterotroph: Chemo organo heterotroph: Predatory, parasitic, and saprophytic prokaryotes. Some eukaryotes (heterotrophic protists, fungi, animals) Carbon dioxide-autotroph: Chemo organo autotroph

  6. List of myco-heterotrophic genera - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plant genera that engage in myco-heterotrophic relationships with fungi. It does not include the fungi that are parasitized by these plants. Monocotyledons. Burmanniaceae (Dioscoreales) Afrothismia - 3 species; Apteria - 1 species; Burmannia - 60 species; Campylosiphon - 1 species; Dictyostega - 1 species; Gymnosiphon - 50 species

  7. Consumer (food chain) - Wikipedia

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    A consumer in a food chain is a living creature that eats organisms from a different population. A consumer is a heterotroph and a producer is an autotroph.Like sea angels, they take in organic moles by consuming other organisms, so they are commonly called consumers.

  8. Saprophytes - Wikipedia

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    Myco-heterotrophs; plants, fungi, or micro-organisms that live on dead or decomposing matter and parasitize fungi, rather than dead organic matter directly. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Saprophytes .

  9. Chemotroph - Wikipedia

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    Chemoheterotrophs (or chemotrophic heterotrophs) are unable to fix carbon to form their own organic compounds. Chemoheterotrophs can be chemolithoheterotrophs , utilizing inorganic electron sources such as sulfur, or, much more commonly, chemoorganoheterotrophs , utilizing organic electron sources such as carbohydrates , lipids , and proteins .