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heterotrophic
1. Obtaining nourishment from exogenous organic material; a reference to organisms unable to synthesize organic compounds from inorganic substrates.
2. A reference to plants occurring in a wide range of habitats on a wide variety of soil types, and of protistans (algae, fungi, and protozoans) utilizing a wide variety of food materials: "There are some organisms that require organic compounds as a source of carbon, but which are able to use light or inorganic compounds as sources of energy; and so, such organisms are not defined as autotrophic, but rather as heterotrophic."
3. The ability or requirement to synthesize all metabolites from organic compounds.
This entry is located in the following unit: tropho-, troph-, -trophy, -trophs, -trophically, -trophic, -trophous (page 5)
heterotrophic
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