Unable to synthesize metabolic products from inorganic materials; requiring complex organic substances (growth factors) for nutrition.
heterotrophic
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- heterotroph
- mixotrophic (biology)
- consumer (ecology)
- decomposer (ecology)
- nitrogen fixation
- Opalinida
- Sporozoa (protozoa)
- autotrophes
- Euglenophyta (algea, division)
- Mastigophora (protozoa)
- bacteria
- Marine microbiology (oceanography)
- decay of organic matter (process – in biology)
- Embryogenesis (developmental biology)
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