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autotrophs

autotrophs is the plural of autotroph.

Meaning of autotroph

Noun

autotroph (plural autotrophs)

  1. Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.
    • 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...2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, page 83
    Synonyms:
    producer

Questions about autotrophs

What is autotrophs the plural of?
Autotrophs is the plural of autotroph.

Words near autotrophs in the dictionary

  1. autotrophic
  2. autotrophical
  3. autotrophically
  4. autotrophies
  5. autotrophism
  6. autotrophs
  7. autotrophy
  8. autotropic
  9. autotropically
  10. autotropism
  11. autotruck

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