Biology 2483A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Starch, Chemosynthesis, Orangutan
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Autotrophs: plants, some bacteria, slide 4: lettuce sea slug: a very unusual autotroph. It has an adaptation to be autotrophic, it eats algae and it is symbiotic with the chloroplasts and can perform photosynthesis. Herbivores organisms that eat plants; some people include organisms that eat fungi. Predators something that catches and kills its pray ( slide 6) Omnivores organisms that eat plants and animals (slide 7: some omnivores with switch from eating plants to animals at different life stages, or different season or just switch all year round. Detritivores things that eat things that are decomposing (slide 8: detritus something thats decomposing, not uncommon to have a series of detritivores to decompose something at different stage. Parasites: organisms that need to live off and feed off of another living being (slide 9: some kill host, but most will infect host but wont kill it because it will run out of its food source.