organotrophy
English
Noun
organotrophy (uncountable)
- (biology) The condition of an organism obtaining its energy from organic compounds.
- 2005, David Sigee, Freshwater Microbiology:
- The ability of many freshwater algae to grow under controlled laboratory conditions in the dark in the presence of a carbon source provides strong experimental evidence for the wide occurrence of organotrophy.
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