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Phototrophs (from
Ancient Gr**** φῶς, φωτός (phôs, phōtós) 'light', and τροφή (trophḗ) 'nourishment') are
organisms that
carry out
photon capture to produce...
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hydrogen sulfide. The
primary producers can
convert the
energy in the
light (
phototroph and photoautotroph) or the
energy in
inorganic chemical compounds (chemotrophs...
- = light,
hetero = (an)other,
troph = nourishment) are
heterotrophic phototrophs—that is, they are
organisms that use
light for energy, but
cannot use...
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Global oceanic and
terrestrial phototroph abundance, from
September 1997 to
August 2000. As an
estimate of
autotroph biom****, it is only a
rough indicator...
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inorganic (chemolithotrophs). The
chemotroph designation is in
contrast to
phototrophs,
which use photons.
Chemotrophs can be
either autotrophic or heterotrophic...
- Some
cyanobacteria are also
capable of
nitrogen fixation.
These are
phototrophs,
which carry out photosynthesis. Like
other nitrogen-fixing bacteria...
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metabolism Nutritional type
Source of
energy Source of
carbon Examples Phototrophs Sunlight Organic
compounds (photoheterotrophs) or
carbon fixation (photoautotrophs)...
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different heterotrophs is by ****igning them as
chemotrophs or
phototrophs.
Phototrophs utilize light to
obtain energy and
carry out
metabolic processes...
- thermophiles,
which use
oxygen and grow well in high temperatures;
anoxygenic phototrophs,
which use
light for
photosynthesis (green non-sulfur bacteria); and...
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RuBisCO is
thought to be the
single most
abundant protein on Earth.
Phototrophs use the
products of
their photosynthesis as
internal food
sources and...
