autotroph

Unlike some of its relatives, this species is an autotroph.

They discover that the Autotroph plans to leave the planet and warn its race about the weapon.

Usually this means that it may be either autotroph or heterotroph at different times in its life.

Each food chain starts with a primary producer or autotroph, an organism, such as a plant, which is able to manufacture its own food.

F. acidophilum is an autotroph and, like Thermoplasma does not contain a cell wall.

When acting as an autotroph, the Euglena uses chloroplasts to produce sugars by photosynthesis.

From this carbon-based hypothesis the scientific team assumed some form of staple photosynthesizing animal/plant combination would be the principal autotroph.

The organism is a moderate thermophile (43-45 C) and an obligate aerobic chemolithotrophic autotroph.

Trophic mutualism often occurs between an autotroph and a heterotroph.

These reduced carbon compounds can be used as an energy source by the autotroph and provide the energy in food consumed by heterotrophs.

An 'autotroph' is an organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple inorganic molecules using energy from light (by photosynthesis) or inorganic chemical reactions.

Organic matter is essentially synthesized from mineral carbon (CO) by autotroph organisms living at the boundaries between the geosphere, the atmosphere and the biosphere.

Phototrophs, a type of autotroph, convert physical energy from sunlight (in case of green plants) into chemical energy in the form of reduced carbon.

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.

Digestive symbyotes - Digestive symbyotes are an example of an important trophic mutualism that does not occur between an autotroph and heterotroph.

For instance, an organism that uses photosynthesis (a phototroph) will have a different isotope δC value than an organism that relies on chemical substances for energy (an autotroph).

Though M. ferrooxydans was isolated as an autotroph, able to fix carbon dioxide, the genome of PV-1 revealed an ability to grow mixotrophically on fructose or mannose.

Thus, species S must eat S or S or S to survive, but can survive on its own only in the absence of S, which poisons the chloroplasts that allow S to be an autotroph.

Evidence supporting this mechanism has been found in the protist Hatena: as a predator it engulfs a green algae cell, which subsequently behaves as an endosymbiont, nourishing Hatena, which in turn loses its feeding apparatus and behaves as an autotroph.