| 词汇 | heterotroph |
| 释义 | heterotroph noun[ C ] biology specializeduk /ˈhet.ər.əˌtrəʊf/ us /ˈhet̬.ɚ.əˌtroʊf/ a living thing that gets its food from other plants or animals异养生物 Plants & animals - general words animal kingdom anti-parasitic autotroph biota biped epiphytically esculent family fauna flora migrant natively non-mammalian non-placental omnivore ruminant scavenger secondary consumer songster terrestrially You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Diets & dieting Related wordheterotrophic heterotroph | American Dictionaryheterotroph noun[ C ] us/ˈhet̬·ər·əˌtroʊf, -ˌtrɑf/ biology a living thing that gets its food from other plants or animals heterotrophicadjective[ not gradable ]us/ˌhet̬·ər·əˈtrɑf·ɪk, -ˈtroʊ·fɪk/ Examples of heterotrophheterotroph The carbonaceous chondrites also contain about 2% solid organic polymer which may be nutrients for heterotrophs. Possessing changes in microorganism type is obvious for multi-species biofilms that have distinctly different microbial types, such as heterotrophs and autotrophs. Cereal seedlings begin as heterotrophs, depending totally on food mobilized from the endosperm. Wachtershauser (1992) has suggested that primitive surface metabolists preceded cellular life and might even persist in habitats that cannot be occupied by heterotrophs. In any case, their loss to the medium, along with any hydrogen also produced, provides an opportunity for direct coupling of phototrophs and heterotrophs living in the mat. Trophic mutualism often occurs between an autotroph and a heterotroph. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a heterotroph that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Although there are many examples of trophic mutualisms, the heterotroph is generally a fungus or bacteria. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The sugars and other molecular components produced by the autotrophs are then broken down, releasing stored solar energy, and giving the heterotroph the energy required for survival. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is aerobic as well as an anoxic heterotroph, having an atypical respiratory type of metabolism in which oxygen and nitrogen oxides are used simultaneously as terminal electron acceptors. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It has the ability to eat plants, and afterwards using the chlorophyll granules from the plants to generate energy, turning itself from being a heterotroph into an autotroph. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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