FEEDERS
- Created by: Natasha
- Created on: 22-04-13 13:42
View mindmap
- FEEDERS
- PREDATORS
- Hunters, prey on others
- usually larger than the prey
- Risk of catching pathogens and parasites from prey
- High calorific content in foods
- high energy putput withhunting, stalking and killing prey
- Hunters, prey on others
- DETRIVORS
- feed on organic matter such as soil e.g earth worm
- OMNIVORE
- Feed on animal and plant materials,
- HERBIVORE
- an organism feeding on plants or phytoplankton
- Advantages
- No need to stalk and capture, plant material doesn't run adn move location, doesnt fight back physically in most cases
- Disadvantages
- Cellulase enzme required to digest cellulose, low calorific content, low salt and nitrogen content,
- can sometimes fight back with chemical poisons and toxins or physically with thorns and nettles/stingers
- can sometimes fight back with chemical poisons and toxins or physically with thorns and nettles/stingers
- Cellulase enzme required to digest cellulose, low calorific content, low salt and nitrogen content,
- Advantages
- an organism feeding on plants or phytoplankton
- SYMBIOTIC
- dietry components are derived from another symbiotic organism, harmonious living
- SAPHROTROPHS
- Scavangers, eat dead or decaying food sources
- PREDATORS
Comments
No comments have yet been made