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autotroph

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autotroph /au·to·troph/ (aw´to-trōf) an autotrophic organism.
au·to·troph (ôt-trf, -trf)
n.
An organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances using light or chemical energy. Green plants, algae, and certain bacteria are autotrophs.
auto·trophic (-trfk, -trfk) adj.
autotroph
an autotrophic organism.


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Their hypothesis, in my view, suffers from the weakness that it requires a huge changeover in the metabolism of the host from an autotroph [which makes ATP from nonorganic fuel] to a heterotroph [which generates energy from organic molecules]," he says.
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jannaschii is the first autotroph whose genome has been sequenced.
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