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| Ecology. an organism, as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances. |
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| Ecology. an organism, usually an animal, that feeds on plants or other animals. |
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| An animal that feeds chiefly on plants. |
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| An animal that eats flesh. |
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| an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances |
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| Ecology. an organism, usually a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down the cells of dead plants and animals into simpler substances. |
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| the natural environment of an organism; place that is natural for the life and growth of an organism: a tropical habitat. |
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| Ecology. the position or function of an organism in a community of plants and animals |
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| ecology. a series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one, etc. |
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| an animal hunted or seized for food, esp. by a carnivorous animal. |
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| Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms. |
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Ecology
a series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer-resource interactions; the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community. |
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