Look up: Autotroph

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   autotroph
   Any organism that is able to manufacture its own food. Most plants are autotrophs, as are many protists and bacteria. Contrast with consumer. Autotrophs may be photoautotrophic, using light energy to manufacture food, or chemoautotrophic, using chemical energy.
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   Autotroph
   (pronounced AW-toh-trofe) An autotroph (or producer) is an organism that makes its own food from light energy or chemical energy (inorganic matter) without eating. Most green plants, many protists (one-celled organisms like slime molds) and most bacteria are autotrophs. Autotrophs are the base of the food chain.
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   Autotroph
   Organisms which obtain energy from the sun and utilises CO2 as sole source of carbon e.g. plants and some bacteria (contrast with heterotroph).
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   Autotroph
   An organism that is independent of outside sources for organic food materials and manufactures its own organic material from inorganic sources.
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   autotroph
   (= lithotroph) Organisms that synthesize all their organic molecules from inorganic materials (carbon dioxide, salts etc.). May be photo-autotrophs or chemo-autotrophs, depending upon the source of the energy. Also known as lithotrophic organisms.
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   autotroph
   <biology> An organism that makes its own food and does not require previously formed organic materials from the environment. Organisms that synthesise all their organic molecules from inorganic materials (carbon dioxide, salts etc.). ... Plants are classified as autotrophs because they use photosynthesis to make their own energy. May be photo ...
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   Autotroph
   An `autotroph` (from the Greek `autos` = self and `trophe` = nutrition) is an organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple inorganic molecules and an external source of energy, such as light or chemical reactions of inorganic compounds. Autotrophs are considered `producers` in a food chain. Plants and other organisms that carry out photosynthesis are phototrophs (or `photoautotrophs`). Bacteria that utilize the oxidation of inorga...
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   autotroph
   (aw´to-trōf) an autotrophic organism.
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   autotroph
   (from the article `angiosperm`) All but a few angiosperms are autotrophs: they are green plants (primary producers) that use solar radiation, carbon dioxide, water, and minerals to ... ...are two sources a cell can use for carbon: inorganic compounds and organic compounds. Organisms that use the inorganic compound carbon dioxide ... ...
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    autotroph
    autotroph 1. An organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances, using light or chemical energy. Green plants, algae, and certain bacteria are autotrophs. 2. Any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants...
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    autotroph
    A microorganism that uses only inorganic materials as its source of nutrients; carbon dioxide serves as the sole carbon source. [auto- + G. troph, nourishment]
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    Autotroph
    An organism that produces food molecules inorganically by using a light or chemical based sources of external energy. This organism does not require outside sources of organic food energy for survival. Also see chemical autotrophs and photosynthetic autotrophs.
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    autotroph
    autotroph (ôt'utrōf") , in biology, an organism capable of synthesizing its own organic substances from inorganic compounds. Autotrophs produce their own sugars, lipids, and amino acids using carbon dioxide as a source of carbon, and ammonia or nitrates as a source of nitrogen. O...
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