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autotroph
autotroph
See also: Autotroph
English
Noun
autotroph (plural autotrophs)
- (ecology) Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.
- 2013 March 1, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 83:
- 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.
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Translations
organism that can synthesize its food
German
Adjective
autotroph (not comparable)
Declension
Declension of autotroph
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist autotroph | sie ist autotroph | es ist autotroph | sie sind autotroph | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | autotropher | autotrophe | autotrophes | autotrophe |
genitive | autotrophen | autotropher | autotrophen | autotropher | |
dative | autotrophem | autotropher | autotrophem | autotrophen | |
accusative | autotrophen | autotrophe | autotrophes | autotrophe | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der autotrophe | die autotrophe | das autotrophe | die autotrophen |
genitive | des autotrophen | der autotrophen | des autotrophen | der autotrophen | |
dative | dem autotrophen | der autotrophen | dem autotrophen | den autotrophen | |
accusative | den autotrophen | die autotrophe | das autotrophe | die autotrophen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein autotropher | eine autotrophe | ein autotrophes | (keine) autotrophen |
genitive | eines autotrophen | einer autotrophen | eines autotrophen | (keiner) autotrophen | |
dative | einem autotrophen | einer autotrophen | einem autotrophen | (keinen) autotrophen | |
accusative | einen autotrophen | eine autotrophe | ein autotrophes | (keine) autotrophen |