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plants make their own food. what do we call organisms that make their own food? detritivore autotroph
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To solve this, we recall the definitions of the terms:
- A detritivore is an organism that feeds on dead organic matter (detritus).
- An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using inorganic substances, like plants do via photosynthesis. Since plants make their own food, the correct term is autotroph.
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B. Autotroph (assuming the options are labeled with the second option as Autotroph; if the original options had labels like A and B, with A being Detritivore and B being Autotroph, then the answer is B. Autotroph)