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Heterotrophs - National Geographic Education
A heterotroph is an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients . The term stems from the Greek words hetero for “other” and trophe for “nourishment.” Organisms are characterized into two broad categories based upon how they obtain their energy and nutrients: autotrophs and heterotrophs.
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Heterotroph - Wikipedia
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly matter from other ...
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Heterotrophy - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Heterotrophy refers to the ability of organisms to grow and reproduce on organic carbon sources, which are taken in either dissolved or particle form. AI ...
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heterotrophy
heterotrophy (ˈhɛtərəʊˌtrəʊfɪ) [f. hetero- + Gr. τροϕή nourishment.] 1. Biol. † a. [ad. G. heterotrophie (A. B. Frank 1885, in Ber. d. Deut. Bot. Ges. III. 143).] An abnormal mode of nutrition observed by Frank in some plants, as those of the N.O. Cupuliferæ, which have no root-hairs, their function...
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On the Origin of Heterotrophy - PubMed
The theory of autotrophic origins of life posits that the first cells on Earth satisfied their carbon needs from CO2. At hydrothermal vents, spontaneous ...
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Autotrophs and Heterotrophs - YouTube
Curious about modes of nutrition? Join the Amoeba Sisters in learning about autotrophs and heterotrophs. Video explains these terms as well ...
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Mixotroph
Obligate autotrophy with facultative heterotrophy: Autotrophy alone is sufficient for growth and maintenance, but heterotrophy may be used as a supplementary Facultative autotrophy with obligate heterotrophy: Heterotrophy is sufficient for growth and maintenance, but autotrophy may be used to supplement, for
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HETEROTROPHIC Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of HETEROTROPHIC is requiring complex organic compounds of nitrogen and carbon (such as that obtained from plant or animal matter) for metabolic ...
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Heterotrophy as a tool to overcome the long and costly autotrophic ...
The combination of hetero- with photoautotrophic growth enables the production of microalgal biomass with pigment and protein contents that are ...
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Heterotrophy - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Heterotrophy is defined as a mode of growth in which organic carbon compounds provide all carbon for biosynthesis, contrasting with autotrophy, where carbon ...
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Heterotroph - Definition and Examples - Biology Online Dictionary
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot make its own food; it is unable to synthesize its own organic carbon-based compounds from inorganic sources.
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Mycotroph
Some mycotrophs are parasitic upon fungi in an association known as myco-heterotrophy.
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heterotrophism
heterotrophism Biol. (ˌhɛtərəʊˈtrəʊfɪz(ə)m) [f. next: see -ism.] = heterotrophy 1 c.1900 A. J. Ewart tr. Pfeffer's Physiol. Plants I. vii. 364 All stages of transition between pure autotrophism and heterotrophism are exhibited among obligate or facultative mixotrophic plants. 1936 W. Stiles Introd. ...
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heterotrophic
heterotrophic, a. Biol. (ˌhɛtərəʊˈtrəʊfɪk) [f. hetero- + Gr. τροϕικός nursing.] Characterized by or exhibiting heterotrophy (in various senses: now only in the sense of heterotrophy 1 c); living as a heterotroph. So ˌheteroˈtrophically adv.1893 Jrnl. R. Microsc. Soc. 665 According as lichens carry o...
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Osmotrophy
See also
Autotrophy
Heterotrophy
Mixotrophy
Phagotrophy
Phototrophy
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Further reading
Microbial growth and nutrition
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