An autotroph is an organism that can convert abiotic sources of energy into energy stored in organic compounds, which can be used by other organisms....
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Photoautotrophism (redirect from Phototrophic autotroph)
Photoautotrophs are organisms that can utilize light energy from sunlight and elements (such as carbon) from inorganic compounds to produce organic materials...
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of nutrition (trophic levels), the other being autotrophs (auto = self, troph = nutrition). Autotrophs use energy from sunlight (photoautotrophs) or oxidation...
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anabolic processes of ATP synthesis (in heterotrophs) or biosynthesis (in autotrophs). The electron or hydrogen donors are taken up from the environment. Organotrophic...
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Chemotroph (redirect from Chemotrophic autotroph)
A chemotroph Greek words “chemo” (meaning chemical) and “troph” (meaning nourishment) is an organism that obtains energy by the oxidation of electron donors...
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chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically ending...
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responsible for primary production are known as primary producers or autotrophs, and form the base of the food chain. In terrestrial ecoregions, these...
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of obtaining energy, some 99% of flowering plants are photosynthetic autotrophs, deriving their energy from sunlight and using it to create molecules...
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September 1982). "Microbiology of thiobacilli and other sulphur-oxidizing autotrophs, mixotrophs and heterotrophs". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal...
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broadly categorized as autotrophs (or primary producers), heterotrophs (or consumers), and Detritivores (or decomposers). Autotrophs are organisms that produce...
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phototroph abundance, from September 1997 to August 2000. As an estimate of autotroph biomass, it is only a rough indicator of primary production potential...
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different population. A consumer is a heterotroph and a producer is an autotroph. Like sea angels, they take in organic moles by consuming other organisms...
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phototroph abundance, from September 1997 to August 2000. As an estimate of autotroph biomass, it is only a rough indicator of primary production potential...
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CODH/acetyl-coenzyme A synthase in LUCA could be compatible not only with being an autotroph but also with life as a mixotroph or heterotroph. Weiss et al. 2018 reply...
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plausible, almost all closed ecological systems to date are based on an autotroph such as green algae. A closed ecological system for an entire planet is...
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lepidopteran species have formed a network of trophic relationships between autotrophs and heterotrophs, which are included in the stages of Lepidoptera larvae...
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the molecular energy currency for the cell. Phototrophs can be either autotrophs or heterotrophs. If their electron and hydrogen donors are inorganic compounds...
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recycling organic matter back into a simpler form that plants and other autotrophs may absorb once again. This cycling of matter is known as the biogeochemical...
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supply the ATP required in anabolic pathways inside of these synthetic autotrophs. E. coli has three native glycolytic pathways: EMPP, EDP, and OPPP. The...
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Aeroplankton Algaculture Algal mat Algal nutrient solutions Artificial seawater Autotrophs Biological pump Diel vertical migration Dimethylsulfoniopropionate f-ratio...
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ecological community. Ecologists can broadly define all life forms as either autotrophs or heterotrophs, based on their trophic levels, the position that they...
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formal-grammar concept Primary production, the production of new biomass by autotrophs in ecosystems Productivity (ecology), the wider concept of biomass production...
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contrast, green plants, red algae, brown algae, and cyanobacteria are all autotrophs, which use photosynthesis to produce their own food from sunlight. Some...
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within any food web, with the lowest level being the primary producers (or autotrophs) such as plants and algae that convert energy and inorganic material into...
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that obtain nutrients by consuming the carbon of other organisms, while autotrophs are organisms that produce their own nutrients from the carbon of inorganic...
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upon differences in nutrition; his Plantae were mostly multicellular autotrophs, his Animalia multicellular heterotrophs, and his Fungi multicellular...
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was saprotrophic like many modern fungi, or that it was a lichenised autotroph. With a diameter of up to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in), and a height reaching 8...
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discover the phenomenon of chemosynthesis. Primary nutritional groups Autotroph Heterotroph Photosynthesis Movile Cave Julian Chela-Flores (2000): "Terrestrial...
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(previously The Producers), an English supergroup Producer (biology) or autotroph, an organism that synthesizes energy-rich organic compounds The Producers...
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Carbon source (biology) (section Autotrophs)
organic molecules as a source of both carbon and energy. In contrast, autotrophs may use inorganic materials as a source for both, such as inorganic chemical...
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