Saturday, September 7, 2013

14/50 - Heterotroph

A Heterotroph is an organism that cannot create its own food so it's dependent on other organisms for nutrition. The opposite of a heterotroph is an autotroph like plans and algae that get energy from the sun and use inorganic compounds to produce organic compounds. All animals are heterotrophs and when this shark was alive it was one too but sadly, it died as a baby.

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