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“autotrophy”
A situation when self-sustaining organisms (green plants, algae, and certain bacteria) are able to produce food from inorganic compounds:
- Carbon autotrophy, ability to assimilate carbon dioxide from the air.
- Nitrogen autotrophy, ability to assimilate nitrate or to do nitrogen fixation.
- Sulfur autotrophy, ability to assimilate sulfate.
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auto-, aut-
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tropho-, troph-, -trophy, -trophs, -trophically, -trophic, -trophous
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