Prototroph vs Autotroph - What's the difference?
prototroph | autotroph |
(biology) Any microorganism that can synthesize its nutrients from inorganic material
(biology) Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.
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In biology terms the difference between prototroph and autotroph
is that prototroph is any microorganism that can synthesize its nutrients from inorganic material while autotroph is any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.prototroph
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(en noun)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.}}