50 Examples of Producer and Consumer Organizations

The producer organisms are those who are able to carry out their own food (also called autotrophs). For example: Cypress, cactus, grass.

On the other hand, consuming organisms are those who obtain food from the environment that surrounds them (formally heterotrophs). For example: tigers, parasites, humans.

The essential condition for an organism to be considered a producer is that it is capable of generating organic material from inorganic substances.

The power source The most common used as an inert substance is that from sunlight, and its Feeding is not only a one-sided interaction in which they feed, but on the contrary release others substances.

In the case of beings that absorb sunlight (plants that practice photosynthesis, those with chlorophyll) release oxygen into the atmosphere, essential for life on Earth. Those that do not photosynthesize are chemoautotrophs, which extract energy from chemical reactions between inorganic substances.

Role in the food chain

In this way, the name of producing organisms acquires another dimension which is to produce

substances for consumption of all the others species, which gives them a fundamental role in the food chain.

The dependence is total, even in the case of carnivorous animals because ultimately the organic composition of its dams It comes from the autotrophic organs on which they fed.

Examples of producer organisms

Consumers

The consuming organisms They are all those who need others to feed themselves, that is, they must consume elements already constituted in nature.

Its feeding process, moreover, does not have the characteristic of having an additional production to consumption, but rather which is limited solely to their own nutrition, and the organic matter they consume must have already been synthesized.

All of the animals Y mushrooms They are part of this group, which makes them in a certain sense a closed group among living beings: heterotrophs always feed on another living being, and can serve as food in turn for others living beings.

Consumers are in turn classified into a group that comprises almost the entirety, which is the group that uses the chemical energy that they extracted directly from organic matter (chemoorganotrophs), and the photorganotrophs which are those that are capable of energy synthesis when they lack light while feeding on other living beings in its absence.

Examples of consumer agencies

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