Examples of autotroph in the following topics:
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- Autotrophs reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) by adding hydrogen atoms to it.
- Photoautotrophs are a type of autotroph.
- Chemoautotrophs are also a type of autotroph.
- Heterotrophs use the products formed by autotrophs to survive.
- They use compounds formed by autotrophs (such as carbohydrates, fatty acids, and alcohols) as their food.
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- Carboxysomes are intracellular structures that contain enzymes involved in carbon fixation and found in many autotrophic bacteria.
- Carboxysomes are intracellular structures found in many autotrophic bacteria, including Cyanobacteria, Knallgasbacteria, Nitroso- and Nitrobacteria.
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- Producers (autotrophs) do not usually eat other organisms but pull nutrients from the soil or the ocean and manufacture their own food using photosynthesis.
- Within ecosystems, the biotic factors that comprise the categories above can be organized into a food chain in which autotrophic producers use materials and nutrients recycled by decomposers to make their own food; the producers are in turn eaten by heterotrophic consumers.
- A food web depicts a collection of heterotrophic consumers that network and cycle the flow of energy and nutrients from a productive base of self-feeding autotrophs .
- Although plants are the most common primary producers, autotrophic photosynthetic microbes (such as cyanobacteria and algae) can harness light energy to generate organic matter.
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- An autotroph or "producer", is an organism that produces complex organic compounds (such as carbohydrates, fats, and proteins) from simple substances present in its surroundings, generally using energy from light (photosynthesis) or inorganic chemical reactions (chemosynthesis).
- Autotrophs can reduce carbon dioxide to make organic compounds, creating a store of chemical energy.
- Phototrophs, a type of autotroph, convert physical energy from sunlight (in case of green plants) into chemical energy in the form of reduced carbon.
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- An autotroph is an organism able to make its own food.
- In an ecological context, they provide nutrition for all other forms of life (besides other autotrophs such as chemotrophs).
- Most of the well-recognized phototrophs are autotrophs, also known as photoautotrophs, and can fix carbon.
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- Ferric iron (Fe3+) is a widespread anaerobic terminal electron acceptor both for autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms.
- The third type of iron-oxidizing microbes is anaerobic photosynthetic bacteria such as Rhodopseudomonas, which use ferrous iron to produce NADH for autotrophic carbon dioxide fixation.
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- Other archaea, called autotrophs, use CO2 in the atmosphere as a source of carbon, in a process called carbon fixation.
- Archaea can live in extreme environments and live off autotrophic sources.
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- They are autotrophs, and the primary carbon fixers in these environments.
- They are non-sporeforming, Gram-negative autotrophs.
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- Some unusual autotrophic sulfate-reducing bacteria, such as Desulfotignum phosphitoxidans, can use phosphite (HPO3-) as an electron donor.
- Ferric iron (Fe3+) is a widespread anaerobic terminal electron acceptor used by both autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms.
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- Most of the well-recognized phototrophs are autotrophs, also known as photoautotrophs, and can fix carbon.
- Photolithoautotroph: an autotrophic organism that uses light energy, and an inorganic electron donor (e.g., H2O, H2, H2S), and CO2 as its carbon source.
- May also be referred to as chemolithoautotrophs, reflecting their autotrophic metabolic pathways.
- A flowchart to determine if a species is autotroph, heterotroph, or a subtype.