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chemoorganoheterotrophy

chemoorganoheterotrophy noun: the state of being chemoorganoheterotrophic.

Noun

chemoorganoheterotrophy (uncountable)

  1. The state of being chemoorganoheterotrophic.
    • While photic autotrophic cyanobacterial diazotrophs require light, P and iron for their activity, non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs may exploit a variety of metabolisms for their nutrition, including phototrophy in the sunlit layer, chemolithoautotrophy and chemoorganoheterotrophy, which could be also...2015 December 12, “Mesopelagic N 2 Fixation Related to Organic Matter Composition in the Solomon and Bismarck Seas (Southwest Pacific)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about chemoorganoheterotrophy

What does chemoorganoheterotrophy mean?
Chemoorganoheterotrophy means the state of being chemoorganoheterotrophic.
What part of speech is chemoorganoheterotrophy?
Chemoorganoheterotrophy is a noun.

Words near chemoorganoheterotrophy in the dictionary

  1. chemonucleolysis
  2. chemoorganoheterotroph
  3. chemoorganoheterotrophic
  4. chemoorganoheterotrophically
  5. chemoorganoheterotrophs
  6. chemoorganoheterotrophy
  7. chemoorganotroph
  8. chemoorganotrophic
  9. chemoorganotrophically
  10. chemoorganotrophs
  11. chemoorganotrophy

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