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Meaning of "autotrophic"
autotrophic (adjective) - describing organisms that can produce their own food using inorganic substances
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- Relating to the production of organic compounds from carbon dioxide as a carbon source, using either light or reactions of inorganic chemical compounds, as a source of energy.
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Primary production occurs in autotrophic organisms of an ecosystem.
The autotrophic bacteria can be chemosynthetic or photosynthetic.
The host cell may be autotrophic activity.
Autotrophic selection or counterselection is often used in yeast.
The photosynthetic cells may be autotrophic or mixotropic.
Autotrophic organisms perform both photosynthesis and respiration.
The photosynthetic cells may be autotrophic or mixotrophic.
If one of these autotrophic species is capable of producing toxins.
Microorganisms present are heterotrophic and autotrophic.
Chemotrophs can be either autotrophic or heterotrophic.
Most chemolithotrophic organisms are also autotrophic.
Phytoplankton are the autotrophic component of the plankton community.
Methanothermobacter marburgensis is a thermophilic and obligately autotrophic archaeon.
The bacterium can be an autotrophic bacterium or a heterotrophic bacterium.
Nitrification is done by what are called autotrophic bacteria.
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The only autotrophic present on the mainland are mostly protists.
Lithoautotrophs are a type of lithotrophs with autotrophic metabolic pathways.
Other autotrophic pathways.
They contain chlorophyll so they are autotrophic.
This is called autotrophic growth.
Some are heterotrophic while others are autotrophic.
Cyanobacteria are an important autotrophic bacteria in the water food web.
Autotrophic through photosynthesis.
The host cell may have autotrophic activity.
Can be autotrophic or heterotrophic.
It can easily adapt between heterotrophic and autotrophic lifestyles.
Eubacteria can either be autotrophic or heterotrophic depending on the species.
A closed ecological system must contain at least one autotrophic organism.
The protoplasts were autotrophic for all vitamins and organic acids.
Autotrophic organisms are producers that generate organic compounds from inorganic material.
The fats can also be produced in autotrophic algae or plants.
These are autotrophic and synthesize food by photosynthesis due to the presence of chloroplasts.
Nitrification is an aerobic process performed by small groups of autotrophic bacteria and archaea.
Since moss gametophytes are autotrophic they require enough sunlight to perform photosynthesis.
The roots promote ammonification potential while mycorhizal roots inhibit autotrophic nitrification.
Autotrophic organisms are those that can make their own food.
The process of succession starts when autotrophic organisms start living in the rocks.
A gene encoding a protein that confers antibiotic resistance or that supplies an autotrophic requirement.
Nitrifying bacteria are autotrophic organisms utilizing only inorganic materials for their metabolism.
All of these factors create quantitative changes between autotrophic and heterotrophic bacteria.
Plant cells are autotrophic because they can make their own food.
The ideal solution thus consists in separating the autotrophic and heterotrophic populations.
This combination of autotrophic and heterotrophic mode of nutrition within a single species is named mixotrophy.
Cultivating mixotrophically combines the technology of autotrophic systems with those of heterotrophic systems.
Formation of hormone autotrophic embryogenic callus which grows well on standard plant tissue culture media.
Use of the reductive glycine pathway for generating formatotrophic and autotrophic microorganisms.
The results also point out that substantial autotrophic activity occurs within flocculent organic detritus.
Development of a new and environmental friendly techology for denitrification based on autotrophic anaerobic oxidation.
The data demonstrated a close coupling between autotrophic production and heterotrophic bacterial production.
Such water generally has a sufficient nutrient content to enable the development of the autotrophic biomass.
