A trade-off of heterotrophic carnivores in gaining energy is that food is:   scarce but it's easy to capture and kill their very nutritious food. abundant but it's nutritious. scarce but it's nutritious. abundant but it's difficult to capture and kill their very nutritious food.

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A trade-off of heterotrophic carnivores in gaining energy is that food is:
 
scarce but it's easy to capture and kill their very nutritious food.
abundant but it's nutritious.
scarce but it's nutritious.
abundant but it's difficult to capture and kill their very nutritious food.
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Answer - Heterotrophic Carnivores usually gains energy from the food which is scarce but it's easy to capture and kill their very nutritious food. 

Such type of organisms used to gain energy from other living things. for example - Like sea angels. With the consumption of other organisms, they get organic molecules, that's why they are known as consumers.

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