Biology GCSE
Consumers
What Consumers means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Organisms that obtain their carbon and energy by eating producers or other consumers, so all food chains depend on the molecules synthesised by producers.
Primary consumers are herbivores that eat producers, and they may be eaten by secondary consumers, which in turn may be eaten by tertiary consumers.
Organisms at level 2 and above, where a consumer that eats a plant or alga is at level 2 and each further feeding step increases the number by one.
Topics that use Consumers
- Levels of organisation (AQA GCSE)
- Trophic levels (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Energy transfer
- food web
- Photosynthesis
- Producers
- Trophic level
- Trophic levels
- Absorption of soluble nutrients
- Algae
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