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What is a facultative phototroph?

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A Phototroph is an oranism that is capable of oxidising its electron donor by using light energy. It is the first prefix when addressing these organisms, they can be; Phototrophs which use light to oxidise or they can be Chemotrophs which use chemical energy to oxidise their electron donor. if you type in nutritional groups into your search engine then u should find a bit of information.

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A phototroph is an organism that carries out photosynthesis to make energy. They are typically plants. Phototrophs are also known as photoautotrophs.

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A phototroph is an organism that carries out photosynthesis to acquire energy.

So any green plant is a phototroph.
a plant

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An organism which can use light to sustain itself (i.e. use sunlight to capture energy for metabolism), however can live without it.

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a photoautotroph

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