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 | Also, organic cycles such as the water cycle, the recycling of the respiratory products of animals (carbon dioxide) in photosynthesis, and the transpiratory return of water to the atmosphere in plants all play major roles as well. |
| Autotrophs - also known as producers, they can make their own food - main producers are photosynthesizers, which utilize the sun's energy and convert it into chemical energy, which they use to build their bodies. |
| Detritovore - organisms that feed by ingesting dead organisms (for example - crabs, earthworms and vultures). |
| CommUnity of Minds : Working Together (7484 words) |
| The fact that "bloom" and "crash" cycles were common among organisms that depend on exhaustible accumulations of dead organic matter for their sustenance was not widely known. |
| Detritovores provide clear examples, but there are others, and we shall take a close look at some of them in the final chapter. |
| Accustomed ways of behaving and thinking tend to persist; this is probably as true of the detritovorous habits of Homo colossus as it was true of earlier human folkways. |
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