What trade-offs are associated with the heterotrophic consumption of live animals versus dead plant materials?

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 What trade-offs are associated with the heterotrophic consumption of live animals versus dead plant materials?

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Heterotrophic organisms are the organisms that are not able to prepare their own food. In turn they have to depend on the external sources to obtain their food from. These external sources could either be in the form of live killing of an animal or being dependent on the dead and decaying  matter in the form of saprophytes.

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