Autotroph vs Chemoautotrophy - What's the difference?
autotroph | chemoautotrophy | Related terms |
(biology) Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.
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(biology) A mode of growth in which CO2 is the exclusive source of assimilated carbon, and energy is derived from chemical processes rather than light.
Chemoautotrophy is a related term of autotroph.
In biology terms the difference between autotroph and chemoautotrophy
is that autotroph is any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy while chemoautotrophy is a mode of growth in which CO2 is the exclusive source of assimilated carbon, and energy is derived from chemical processes rather than light.autotroph
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(wikipedia autotroph)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}
