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Consumer Definitions:
An organism that feeds directly on living or dead animals by ingestion or by phagocytosis.
Prescott's Microbiology 9th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton
A heterotroph that derives energy from the consumption of other organisms.
Essential Microbiology by Stuart Hogg
Consumer Notes:
In biology, consumer is a term for an organism that cannot manufacture its own from inorganic sources; hence, it obtains food by feeding on other organisms (or organic matter). Consumers are also called Heterotrophs, contrary to Autotrophs, which are the producers of the food chain. Animals, fungi and heterotrophic bacteria fall in the category of consumers.
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