Deutsch: Verbraucher / Español: Consumidor / Português: Consumidor / Français: Consommateur / Italiano: Consumatore /
Consumer is the organism that cannot synthesize the organic nutrients it needs and gets its organic nutrients by feeding on the tissues of producers or of other consumers; generally divided into primary consumers (herbivores), secondary consumers (carnivores), tertiary (higher-level) consumers, omnivores, and detritivores (decomposers and detritus feeders). In economics, one who uses economic goods.
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Decomposer is the Organism that digests parts of dead organisms and cast-off fragments and wastes of . . . Read More | |
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