osmotrophic 1. Acquiring food by absorption, as fungi do. 2. Organisms that feed on dissolved organic molecules absorbed from the outside environmenT. 3. Feeding by 'absorbing' dissolved food from the surrounding environment. Membrane pumps and pinocytosis are the most likely routes of food uptake.
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A form of nutrition in which soluble compounds are taken up by the organism, either by pinocytosis or by mechanisms capable of transporting one or a few molecules at a time (membrane pumps).
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