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• The first organism would have therefore been a heterotroph deriving energy from this existing pool of nutrients.
• Of course, from a certain point of view, no heterotroph is capable of feeding “itself”, it needs to find food out there to eat.
• When the “heterotroph barrier” was finally crossed in the late Precambrian, herbivorous and carnivorous protists arose almost simultaneously, for no major biological...
• A heterotroph is an organism that feeds off of another, or its byproducts (so both herbivores and carnivores), as opposed to an autotroph which produces its own energy...