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A: Autotrophs and heterotrophs differ in the way they obtain energy; autotrophs make their own energy whereas heterotrophs must consume other organisms to get their energy. Autotrophs are the producers of ecosystems, which means they are the providers of energy for the rest of the organisms within the ecosystem. Continue Reading.
Report Abuse. An autotroph is an organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple inorganic molecules using energy from light or inorganic chemical reactions. Autotrophs are the producers in a food chain. Plants and other organisms which carry out photosynthesis are photoautotrophs (or phototrophs).Bacteria which derive energy from oxidizing inorganic compounds (such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonium and ferrous iron) are chemoautotrophs, and include the lithotrophs.hey take energy from the environment (in the form of sunlight or inorganic chemicals) and use it to create carbon-based organic molecules. Other organisms, called heterotrophs, take in autotrophs as food to carry out such functions.