Autotrophとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From auto- (from Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”)) +‎ -troph (from Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”)).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)tɹəʊf/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɔtəˌtɹoʊf/

名詞

autotroph (plural autotrophs)

1. (ecology) Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.
   • 2013 March, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 4 January 2017, page 83:

     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. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

同意語

• producer (biology)

等位語

• heterotroph

派生語

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