The autotrophs are the primary producer in the food chain and they are the ones who initiate the food chain. They produce food by using sunlight or sometimes chemical energy or reactions. They primarily use carbon dioxide, sunlight and water to form sugars or carbohydrates which become their energy source. They use the process of photosynthesis or chemosynthesis to generate food. Examples of autotrophs are green plants, green algae, bacteria.
Heterotrophs cannot make their food via sunlight or other inorganic sources and hence are dependent on the autotrophs or other animals. The heterotrophs have been ranked as secondary and tertiary consumers and cannot be producers. They consume the organic products made by autotrophs to obtain energy for various metabolic and biological activities. The heterotrophs can be herbivore, carnivore, fungi, parasitic plants.
Some are photo-hetrotrophs, who use light as energy but cannot use carbon dioxide as the carbon source since they cannot fix the carbon like autotrophs.
Answer:
chemicals
Explanation:
The nose and the tongue are two of the five sensory organs (others being skin, eyes, ears). These organs contain certain cellular structures called SENSORY RECEPTORS, which respond to different stimulus in the environment.
Nose and tongue are two organs that possess a type of sensory receptor called CHEMORECEPTORS. Chemoreceptors are receptors that respond to chemical stimuli. In other words, the receptors in the nose and tongue are stimulated by chemical substances e.g. food chemicals for TONGUE, chemicals in air for NOSE.
Answer:
A. A year of drought followed by four years of average or above-average rain
Explanation:
In the first year the Finches population goes down drastically meaning that a disaster must have occurred that would negatively affect the population, a drought. The next four years the Finch population increases steadily so the average rainfall must have been average or above average according to the graph.
Explanation:
DNA is the information molecule. It stores instructions for making other large molecules, called proteins. These instructions are stored inside each of your cells, distributed among 46 long structures called chromosomes. These chromosomes are made up of thousands of shorter segments of DNA, called genes.
