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  1. Any living organism that obtains its energy
  2. from organic substances produced by other
  3. organisms. All animals and fungi are
  4. heterotrophs, and they include herbivores,
  5. carnivores, and saprotrophs (those that feed
  6. on dead animal and plant material).
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