heterotroph
English
editEtymology
editFrom hetero- (“other”) + -troph (“nutrition”).
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editNoun
editheterotroph (plural heterotrophs)
- (ecology) An organism which requires an external supply of energy and nutrients under the form of food containing organic carbon as it cannot synthesize its own.
- 2009, Christian Wirth, Gerd Gleixner, Martin Heimann, Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 159:
- Woody detritus is an important component of forested ecosystems. It can reduce erosion and affects soil development, stores nutrients and water, provides a major source of energy and nutrients, and serves as a seedbed for plants and as a major habitat for decomposers and heterotrophs.
- 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.
Synonyms
edit- consumer (biology)
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edit- heterotroph on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
German
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Adjective
editheterotroph (strong nominative masculine singular heterotropher, not comparable)
Declension
editPositive forms of heterotroph (uncomparable)
Further reading
edit- “heterotroph” in Duden online
- “heterotroph” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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