In a grassland ecosystem, the autotroph would be prairie cordgrass. Autotrophs are organisms that produce their own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, while the other options listed (monarch butterfly, mallard duck, and muskrat) are heterotrophs, meaning they obtain their food by consuming other organisms.
Which would be an autotroph in a grassland ecosystem?(1 point)
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monarch butterfly
monarch butterfly
mallard duck
mallard duck
prairie cordgrass
prairie cordgrass
muskrat
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