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    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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    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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  • A chemotroph is an organism that obtains energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments. These molecules can be organic (chemoorganotrophs)...
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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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  • (previously The Producers), an English supergroup Producer (biology) or autotroph, an organism that synthesizes energy-rich organic compounds The Producers...
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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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    broadly categorized as autotrophs (or primary producers), heterotrophs (or consumers), and Detritivores (or decomposers). Autotrophs are organisms that produce...
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    or trophic level, is used in ecology to broadly classify organisms as autotrophs or heterotrophs. This is a non-binary classification; some organisms (such...
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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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    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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    have led to symbiogenesis that gave rise to eukaryotes and eukaryotic autotrophs such as green and red algae. The earliest predators were microorganisms...
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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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    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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    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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    without being continuously replenished by the photosynthetic activities of autotrophs such as cyanobacteria, chloroplast-bearing algae and plants. A much rarer...
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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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    Aeroplankton Algaculture Algal mat Algal nutrient solutions Artificial seawater Autotrophs Biological pump Diel vertical migration Dimethylsulfoniopropionate f-ratio...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • closely related to the family Thioalkalibacteraceae of halophilic obligate autotrophs with distinct morphological and genomic features. Kelly, Donovan P.; Wood...
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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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  • molecules as their source of electrons to support growth; some species are autotrophs. The genus Thiobacillus was previously considered to be a member in this...
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    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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