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What is the noun for heterotroph?

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heterotroph
  1. (ecology) An organism which requires an external supply of energy in the form of food as it cannot synthesize its own.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “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.”
      “A heterotroph is an organism that cannot fix carbon from inorganic sources but uses organic carbon for growth.”
      “According to the heterotroph hypothesis, hydrogen was not a chief component of the atmosphere when life began.”
heterotrophy
  1. The state of being a heterotroph.
  2. Examples:
    1. “After greening and probable transition from heterotrophy to autotrophy, root growth rate was enhanced and growth followed a linear pattern.”
      “If detached leaves were fed glucose, inducing a rapid switch from autotrophy to heterotrophy, then they were seen to exhibit GPT activity.”
      “All protozoans engage in heterotrophy, but not all protozoans are exclusive heterotrophs.”
heterotrophies
  1. plural of heterotrophy
heterotrophs
  1. plural of heterotroph
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This photosynthetic control of cell-cycle progression is similar to the nutritional control of heterotrophs.”
      “The result, especially when heterotrophs are preyed upon by other heterotrophs, is a food chain.”
      “Endosymbiosis of green algal unicells with two different heterotrophs led to euglenoids and to chlororachniophytes.”
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