autotroph
See also: Autotroph
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auto- (from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”)) + -troph (from Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”))
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autotroph (plural autotrophs)
- (ecology) Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.
- 2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 4 January 2017, page 83:
- It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
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- producer (biology)
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organism that can synthesize its food
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autotroph (strong nominative masculine singular autotropher, not comparable)
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Positive forms of autotroph (uncomparable)