Autotroph vs Saprophyte - What's the difference?
autotroph | saprophyte |
(biology) Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.
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As nouns the difference between autotroph and saprophyte
is that autotroph is (biology) any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy while saprophyte is any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.autotroph
English
(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.}}
