autotroph

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)tɹəʊf/    美 /ˈɔtəˌtɹoʊf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 accepted.

词形变化

autotrophs plural

词源

From auto- (from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”)) + -troph (from Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”)).
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