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Auxotroph vs Autotroph - What's the difference?

auxotroph | autotroph |

As nouns the difference between auxotroph and autotroph

is that auxotroph is any microorganism that has lost the ability to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, usually as a result of mutation while autotroph is any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.

auxotroph

English

Alternative forms

* auxotrophe

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any microorganism that has lost the ability to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, usually as a result of mutation

    • Derived terms

    * auxotrophic * auxotrophy

    autotroph

    English

    (wikipedia autotroph)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author= , title=The Smallest Cell , volume=101, issue=2, page=83 , magazine= 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.}}

    Coordinate terms

    * heterotroph

    Derived terms

    * autotrophic * autotrophically * autotrophy