Examples of heterotroph

• The carbonaceous chondrites also contain about 2% solid organic polymer which may be nutrients for heterotrophs.

• Possessing changes in microorganism type is obvious for multi-species biofilms that have distinctly different microbial types, such as heterotrophs and autotrophs.

• Cereal seedlings begin as heterotrophs, depending totally on food mobilized from the endosperm.

• Wachtershauser (1992) has suggested that primitive surface metabolists preceded cellular life and might even persist in habitats that cannot be occupied by heterotrophs.

• In any case, their loss to the medium, along with any hydrogen also produced, provides an opportunity for direct coupling of phototrophs and heterotrophs living in the mat.

• Trophic mutualism often occurs between an autotroph and a heterotroph.

• Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a heterotroph that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked).

• Although there are many examples of trophic mutualisms, the heterotroph is generally a fungus or bacteria.