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US
/ˌɔtəˈtɹoʊfɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis
How To Use autotrophic In A Sentence
- To test the theory of a chemoautotrophic origin of life in a volcanic, hydrothermal setting, we explored mechanisms for the buildup of bio-organic compounds by carbon fixation on catalytic transition metal precipitates. Dawkins on the OOL
- Physiologically, plant conversion or seedling development involves a transition from the heterotrophic embryo to an autotrophic plant.
- Sulfur bacteria Filamentous autotrophic chemosynthetic bacteria that derive energy by oxidizing sulfides to elemental sulfur and build up carbohydrates form carbon dioxide.
- These resemble the foot of some specialized bivalves (Solemya or Lucina) used to penetrate putrid sediment to release H 2 S consumed by symbiotic chemoautotrophic bacteria.
- Rhodophyta are autotrophic, which is an organism that obtains and stores Floridian starch from photosynthesis. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- I’m not aware of all the details of the black smoker theory but around the black smokers they’ve found “chemolithoautotrophic hyperthermophilic archaebacteria.” Good Math, Bad Math, and David Berlinkski - The Panda's Thumb
- In this case, changes in photosynthetic activity enable comparisons to be made between mitochondria in autotrophic and heterotrophic tissue.
- Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E). Marine microbes
- In the time after a fire during which appreciable tree mortality occurred, the majority of respiration shifts from autotrophic to heterotrophic. Climate change in relation to carbon uptake and carbon storage in the Arctic
- Few authors have explored body size patterns across the E / O transition, although Hickman did document an increase in the size of chemoautotrophic thyasirid bivalves from the Pacific Northwest.