Autotrophic

Word AUTOTROPHIC
Character 11
Hyphenation au to troph ic
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An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide. Urban Dictionary

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The word "autotrophic" in example sentences

Rhodophyta are autotrophic, which is an organism that obtains and stores Floridian starch from photosynthesis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On land, an estimated 60 Pg C (60 billion tonnes) is emitted to the atmosphere each year by autotrophic respiration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the sea, autotrophic respiration is thought to account for about 58 Pg of the dissolved inorganic carbon in surface waters each year, with the contribution of heterotrophic respiration being 34 Pg C. Vulcanism ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the time after a fire during which appreciable tree mortality occurred, the majority of respiration shifts from autotrophic to heterotrophic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Similarly, among protists, a radiolarian may capture and ingest, more or less indifferently, a bacterium, an autotrophic flagellate, a herbivorous oligotrich ciliate, or another radiolarian (Fig 2E). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus, the viruses which attack the autotrophic prokaryotes Synechococcus, the bacteria which absorb dissolved organic excreted by autotrophic protists such as diatoms and dinoflagellates, and the protists such as ciliates, radiolarians which feed on autotrophic protists are all consumers of primary production. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Microbial autotrophic and heterotrophic eucaryotes in Antarctic waters: relationships between biomass and chlorophyll, adenosine triphosphate and particulate organic carbon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A number of autotrophic organisms have specialized mechanisms that allow for absorption of this gas into their cells. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Usually in surface waters there are about a thousand per ml of small flagellates which feed on bacteria (both autotrophic and heterotrophic prokaryotes) and 1 or 2 ciliates, oligotrichs (Fig 2B) and tintinnids (Fig 2C) or heterotrophic dinoflagellates which feed on autotrophic protists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There remains a debate as to whether the coastal ocean taken as a whole is net autotrophic or heterotrophic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ecosystem respiration has two major components, RA (autotrophic or plant respiration) and RH (heterotrophic or animal plus microbial respiration). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Among marine microbes, consumers of primary producers are those which feed on autotrophic prokaryotes or autotrophic protists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Recent biological research in Lechuguilla Cave led to the discovery of unusual micro-organisms in pools, hydroaerosols in the cave air, and suspected lithotrophic bacteria which may derive metabolic energy from sulphur, manganese, and iron and ecosystems dependent upon these autotrophic bacteria (Davis et al. ,1990; Cunningham,1991; Northup et al., 2000a, b). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some protist species retain and use the chloroplasts in the prey they eat while other protists harbor symbionts, entire autotrophic bacteria or protists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Typically this is still applied to trophic dynamics (e.g. the classic example of the cascade of effects after the removal of the sea otter from its environs), but it has also been applied to autotrophic situations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When released, most of the ammonium is often chemically altered by a specific type of autotrophic bacteria (bacteria that belong to the genus Nitrosomonas) into nitrite (NO2 -). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Assimilation is the incorporation of reactive nitrogen, be it as ammonia (NH3) or as nitrate (NO − 3), by autotrophic organisms into amino acids that are then used to synthesize proteins. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Plant (autotrophic) respiration consumes approximately half of the gross photosynthesis, and it reduces the global net primary productivity (i.e., the new phytomass available every year for consumption by heterotrophs [from bacteria to humans]) to approximately 60 Gt of carbon on land and approximately 50 Gt of carbon in the ocean. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The major influence of temperature on net carbon balance is through its effects on rates of both autotrophic and heterotrophic respirations Malhi et al., 1999. ❋ Unknown (2007)

While they make a good case for a simple autotrophic core of reactions forming the start of life chemistry, there are a range of details missing in their treatment of the thermodynamic aspects. ❋ Unknown (2006)

[A plant] is a [Autotroph] ❋ Lydibugs (2018)

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