We generally think of eating as the action of taking in food, which is appropriate for animals familiar to us, but does not apply to many other organisms that take in food.\u00a0 The bacteria that decompose dead algae are examples especially relevant to the Sunrise Farm Pond pathway.\u00a0 They have no mouth or digestive system, but they do have ways of taking in food.\u00a0 (The mechanisms by which bacteria \u201ctake in\u201d food are complicated; we do not address them here because they are beyond what elementary students have the background to understand.)\u00a0 In this resource, we use the term \u201cconsume\u201d when referring to organisms, like the bacteria, that take in food from their environment but don\u2019t actually eat.\u00a0 The obvious relationship to \u201cconsumer\u201d may help students understand the biological meaning of this term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We generally think of eating as the action of taking in food, which is appropriate for animals familiar to us, but does not apply to many other organisms that take in food.\u00a0 The bacteria that decompose dead algae are examples especially relevant to the Sunrise Farm Pond pathway.\u00a0 They have no mouth or digestive system, Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1672","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1672\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horizon-research.com\/ASSET\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}