The autotroph in a grassland ecosystem would be prairie cordgrass. Autotrophs are organisms that produce their own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis, and prairie cordgrass, being a type of grass, performs photosynthesis. The other options (muskrat, monarch butterfly, and mallard duck) are all heterotrophs, as they consume other organisms for energy.
Question
Which would be an autotroph in a grassland ecosystem?(1 point)
Responses
muskrat
muskrat
monarch butterfly
monarch butterfly
mallard duck
mallard duck
prairie cordgrass
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